This game is very confusing. Help please, and be nice. I am very new to this level of strategy games.

[Blunder Bro]

I have no idea what I am doing and need a good straight forward tutorial of literally everything.

The Italy tutorial told me what to do, but I didn't really understand what it was I was doing, or any of the stats, factors and everything else on screen? It taught me what to do to do a general attack but I had no idea what I was really doing, why or how anything worked. It told me to click x and then y but I don't understand anything that I am doing and struggled to make sense of the ever increasing list of complicated mechanics and confusing stats. What do you mean this will cost 337 IC?? What the ♥♥♥♥ is IC????

What is IC? Should I get bigger guns rather than small guns for ships and land artillery? Why does it say have x divisions of garrisons to satisfy needs and yet resistance increases? Why do info pop-ups just confuse me with more statistics and effects that I have no idea what they really mean? I have had fully stocked and sufficient garrisions and yet resistance is still going up!?!? Naval sortie efficiency? Screening??? What??

I am so confused and the more I try to read and look into things the less I understand and then even more confusing mechanics and complicated unexplained statistics appear.

[Nouni19]

I can help you learn about the game if you want, and do you have any DLCs?

[Preacher]

Brother i have 200 hours and I just figured out the division templates. I suggest whenever you have a question, immediately look on the HOI4 wiki.

[Şeyma]

what does "gun" do?

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by Preacher:

Brother i have 200 hours and I just figured out the division templates. I suggest whenever you have a question, immediately look on the HOI4 wiki.

Too many questions, too confusing, Need straight forward tutorials.

[Şeyma]

if u want a tip on how to learn, ignore 90% of the ♥♥♥♥ because most of it doesnt even matter and if u think about it u will just get overwhelmed by it all. just make guns and troops and help allies kill enemies and slowly learn 1 at a time as u go

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by Nouni19:

I can help you learn about the game if you want, and do you have any DLCs?

Thanks. You can try, but I am a very slow learner with this game. I have a fair few and I tried blackice mod and am regretting it big time. Game is complicated enough. I don't have La Resistance as it looks even more mind-boggling.

I am dreading getting into any wars as I have no idea what do make, what stats mean what really and how anything will fair. I have a lot of destroyers, I have no idea what their attack ranges are or if my carriers will get in the line of fire or what guns to outfit them with. I just about managed to win in the tutorial against the Ethiopians. Didn't really know what I was doing or why anything worked. Battle predictions were all over the place all the time and I had no idea if my planes were even effective. I think I only won coz I had more meat for the grinder.

Any good tutorial channels to recommend? I tried one and they darted about to quickly to menus that I had no idea what key they pressed to get there or what the menu even really was. It felt like I was already meant to know exactly what they were on about and where to go without actually being told what to press or what I was looking at. Kinda felt like I joined a quantum mechanics class mid-semester where everyone else knew enough to understand what the teacher was saying.

[-I-]

In a few years, I managed to assign a general to the air squadrons.I managed to combine them into squadrons.
After two years of playing, the German attack is approaching, so maybe I have some bunkers and about 150 divisions.
I have been preparing for them for two years.I have no idea what I'm going to do when the attack starts. I don't want to draw the line I want to move the divisions manually where I want.
The advantage of the Soviet Union is that it can absorb the attacker and allows several mistakes.

[TheCr33pur]

Cookie, this gonna take some time to learn the rope of this game. Might wanna do some research and write down some notes. Make sure to use the wikipedia as well for details, incase you didnt know what they do. After awhile, you probably start over many times until you get a hang of it. You can try finding videos on youtube, watch ppls play, reading someone guide, etc. Try to stay away from advance guides, look for someone simple then work your way up there.

[El MaldingNoob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uCwrt-LkA&list=PLs3acGYgI1-v2rWyEDR8Mn3Avf9CxH1s1
These should be helpful to get your bearings. Just know that this will require a bit of effort on your part on being willing to learn and make mistakes, especially if you are new to the genre.

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by El MaldingNoob:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uCwrt-LkA&list=PLs3acGYgI1-v2rWyEDR8Mn3Avf9CxH1s1
These should be helpful to get your bearings. Just know that this will require a bit of effort on your part on being willing to learn and make mistakes, especially if you are new to the genre.

I have started this. Still confused about a lot, but it has helped so far. So thanks. I'll keep watching them tomorrow maybe.

I think navies are the most daunting aspect for me. Composition of ships, what ships will actually do what in an engagement, what they are best for, what I should focus on getting the most of, what upgrades, how combat will work out with them (or how combat at sea works at all). I was going to reorganise my navies to have a balance low to high numbers from carrier, battleship, heavy cruiser, medium(light??) cruisers, and then destroyers being the most numerous, but I have no idea what that would really or anything. At least others games were simpler to figure how...

Same kinda thing with armies. Not sure how it all works yet, but hope it'll become clearer in the videos, yay?

I am not sure if I want a balanced mixed army of everything and if the commander/general will assign them against enemies that they are best suited to fighting, or if units in an army will like go where they go and if they happen to face an enemy that is good against them but that they cannot beat, then they get rekt.

I think that divisions can be different units strengths/numbers and different makeups can make them better at x or able to counter y (to some degree) so I have no idea if 6 of my divisions will match 6 of my enemies and ughh... the more I think about it, the more I just want to sit back and do nothing as a neutral country or go back RUSE, Supreme Commander, Total War, etc. *sigh* Idk...

You can probably tell how daunting this complex game all is for me.

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by AdamKotikPrahaCZ:

In a few years, I managed to assign a general to the air squadrons.I managed to combine them into squadrons.
After two years of playing, the German attack is approaching, so maybe I have some bunkers and about 150 divisions.
I have been preparing for them for two years.I have no idea what I'm going to do when the attack starts. I don't want to draw the line I want to move the divisions manually where I want.
The advantage of the Soviet Union is that it can absorb the attacker and allows several mistakes.

I guess 150 is a lot, but my thoughts would be going to what can my guys do, and if they aren't good against what they face, will they melt?

I did that myself in the Italy tutorial. I didn't get exactly what the auto battle-line frontline thingys(??) would do better, if at all. So I didn't trust it at all and moved everything myself. All I knew was that I had x divisions of idk number of men and they had x divisions of... inferior quality/quantity of infantry? I moved about to have green battle counter and I have no idea real understanding of how or why, but I won, soooooooo... yay, viva la pasta?

[bubbas]

Originally posted by Preacher:

...I suggest whenever you have a question, immediately look on the HOI4 wiki.

This and also mouse-over and read the popups.

As a friend of mine once said:
Play a game, fail.
Play again, fail better ;)

[Preacher]

Originally posted by bubbas:

Originally posted by Preacher:

...I suggest whenever you have a question, immediately look on the HOI4 wiki.

This and also mouse-over and read the popups.

As a friend of mine once said:
Play a game, fail.
Play again, fail better ;)

the only real teacher is experience

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by bubbas:

Originally posted by Preacher:

...I suggest whenever you have a question, immediately look on the HOI4 wiki.

This and also mouse-over and read the popups.

As a friend of mine once said:
Play a game, fail.
Play again, fail better ;)

Yeah I have, but they don't always clarify or help me. A popup saying i.e. "+20 the planning speed" or something only helps to inform me that there is yet another thing that I have no idea what it means to what units.

[Dagoth Brain Made Of Tired]

cas guns and artillery