Hearts of Iron IV - Beginner Tutorial - Battle Plans

Jake goes through how to setup a proper Battle plan in Hearts of Iron IV.
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[@RyanTheHero3]

*Now there’s no chance of Ethiopia beating me again!*

[@vassaloftripoli4302]

Same

[@idrissi55]

fucking hell i tried so hard in the tutorial and failed. pure italianism

[@uncledave5690]

Thanks Barry Scott, very cool

[@justyouraveragebritishguy1588]

I tried Sweden with battle Royale, didn’t last first battle cause I’m trash.

[@user-oz7xe5zg3h]

*flashbacks to Switzerland beating democratic germany*

[@billydiesel8520]

This dude is doing everything he can to hide his scottish accent but it came out when he said "garrisoned" near the end.

[@dnjj1845]

it's DDRJake

[@youcpu7293]

And carry eout their orders

[@Vicenarius]

front liene

[@Accidentalreef]

6:17

[@w4vesgd]

I was incredibly surprised when the actual studio can provide a much shorter and helpful tutorial than 95% of youtubers! Thanks, Paradox.

[@nc6379]

Crazy, almost as if they developed the game

[@Char3290]

thank you for this, paradox, you covered something in 7 minutes all other youtubers cover in 30!

[@slayride136]

true

[@extraterrestrial736]

ikr

[@thomask660]

5:54 "go home ship, you're drunk"

[@thatguywhosayshi7021]

Lol

[@tomasjankauskas5265]

Theas days are so painfull.

[@StrategyLP]

I agree :(

[@mythicaldust8670]

So is your spelling...

[@tomasjankauskas5265]

107 likes. I never expected that

[@TheNoob82749]

These*

[@PunishedgoonerMAGA]

T h e a s

[@disrxt]

It looks ready to play now! Why do these evil developers make me wait until D-Day? And worst of all they then taunt me with so called 'tutorials.' Bastards.

[@wammi8080]

Lol

[@SuperCompany007]

Because they think it is fitting to release it on D-day and they want to milk every last cent out of the pre-order.

[@averagejacobinsubscriber]

And so they can get some last minute tweaking done.

[@vincentgaulin6663]

yep as an exemple i'm buying the feldmarshall pack on tuesday

[@mattpelzek3809]

100 likes!

[@gunnarherzog5538]

Could we have a tutorial about the Division Designer? I would really love to learn more about the benefits of mixed brigades and specialized brigades (e.g. all armour). Also in the World War Wednesday videos, we also saw that you can attach artillery both as support and as a regular battalion, what are the benefits there?

[@morat242]

Support artillery provides much smaller bonuses, but it doesn't impede mobility, even paradropping, and it's cheaper. So your paratroop units need support artillery, because they can't drop with the regular kind. But your infantry divisions probably want the regular kind, because A) there are only 5 support slots and B) you can take several regular artillery battalions but only one support artillery unit. Mountain troops might also want support arty. Same if you have mobile divisions but you haven't built self-propelled artillery yet.

[@Taihouchan]

and to add to morat's answer, the support battalion costs less

[@Haphazardization]

This system alone is such a godsend and makes the entire game worth it in my mind

[@algebraizt]

It's a great tutorial but the strategy makes me laugh. "In this example we'll defend some of our newly acquired coastline" Ah yes, from the lesser known Polar Bear Invasion Event when you build too many nuclear reactors.

[@amshermansen]

Great step by step video, Jake. This is just the kind of video I need to send my friends when they ask for help with things in your games. :)

[@Fireburnin21]

All of the HOI 3 Old Guards are dissing the game for this exact reason, but everyone knows they are going to prefer this over the shitty HOI3 system.

[@jkahgdkjhafgsd]

it has advantages and disadvantages none of the 2 is perfect

[@pira707]

I have 700 hours in hoi3 and I really don't mind. hoi3 ai was the shittiest but I will miss the command structure. ;)

[@materialmanners]

+Smutnovsor you can still micromanage in this game

[@SneakyRANGERREX]

Never played a Hearts of Iron game before but the Battle Plan stuff looks amazing, a great step up from units running around each other willy nilly in similar games of the genre. Actual lines of battle stretched across theatres of war, it's morbidly beautiful.

[@Kottery]

its so cool watching the infantry push that frontline forward but really spooky watching their numbers dwindle DIS GON BE GUD

[@0livye]

GIMME THAT

[@bro918]

HEY WE'RE THE SAME

[@XLHeavyD999]

Noooo putin clones, Russia is getting for their own clone-war.

[@huseynaxmedov09]

XD

[@0livye]

bro918 watafak xD we are the legion

[@Angel-wo8gv]

DLC pack for HOI4 confirmed xDDD

[@joezetank]

I love how professional and proper jake sounds here

[@Holtkamp1875]

Beautiful work guys. I hope this is something that y'all continue to do for your other games as well.

[@lw9954]

Jesus finally a tutorial for beginners that isn't the most boring 3 hours video i've ever seen

[@genlukd1829]

Thank you so much, i was having a bitter time with naval invasions, but right after i watched this it went all good.

[@FUnazis]

I was really impressed by this. Only got the game yesterday so I've just played about 3 hours, but I love how this works. You can give an army a certain order to go here and there, when the fighting is going on then you can still micro the units to deal with enemy troops to your liking, but it won't override the battle plan, your own troops still continue to move after the fighting is done. Yeah, really love how this works, awesome job. I'm just watching some tutorials AFTERWARDS to make sure I really know what I'm doing before heading into the great campaign.

[@basselkh8082]

10 straight hours in the game and I have no idea what i'm doing

[@emre9797]

450 hours here and I feel the same

[@jastnosj6390]

@@emre9797 this game is harder than math

[@jomo5800]

3 months of HOI and all I do is defend my country (Philippines). How? "I'm gonna set up garrisons and spam submarines~" "World conquest? I can't even reclaim Visayas..."

[@combatgaming3266]

THANK YOU so much I was having to manually move my troops each time I wanted to attack and this caused me to lose a lot because there were gaps in the line, but this tutorial helped even a lot of years later!

[@pr.mogaadrian1918]

simple, str8 to the point, good narrating, thats what i want from a video, good job sir.

[@G4MR1]

nice, beginner tutorial. I've always wanted to learn this game. I hope more videos come out before HoI4 comes out

[@BsBellamy]

We want more of those.

[@JaysGaming]

Thanks DDRJake, this one will be super useful for my campaign =)

[@gamertrw7344]

I just started the game and a few mins into the video and I know a lot more, thanks for the easy and short tutorial

[@MarkHerndon]

Thanks for this finally someone showing how to establish and control fronts. This part of the game has aggravated me more than any other. Nothing like getting everything set up perfectly Danzig or war goes off and not being able to advance into Poland...

[@FlensostensVrede]

This is so well made that I'm crying of joy when I see it. The difference between this and HOI3 is HUGE! I love you Paradox. Will you marry me?

[@Tinnesa]

Same here bro, finally HoI is coming back to it's HoI II roots with easy to understand mechanics + improvements like the battle plans

[@Plat01XY]

Bruh

[@matthours1783]

I screamed loudly, sobbed tears of joy until I puked blood and then rolled on the floor screaming and laughing while clawing the air as I puked ice cream

[@brettbricker1810]

Very clean and simple demonstration. Can't wait till the 6th.

[@Nahomag1]

OMG Paradox finally made some friendly interface and usefull tutorials in HOI series. It took em 13 years to do so, since release of 1st HOI, well better late than never :D Good job Devs!

[@psnglck20]

Got this game today and already helping me out a ton

[@GunSmoke_Gaming]

I’m stupid 😂😂🤦‍♂️ I’m new to the game and never knew about battle plans. I always manually move my troops along front lines and move in one unit at a time. Always took forever to invade and take over a country… wow. I’m glad I found this video and now I can actually get in on some GREAT action finally.

[@Elnis888]

Great video - thank you for the explanations!

[@barse.255]

Thank you so much. This is very helpful

[@princehector3888]

So this is what Jake have been up to while being on his "vacation" hehe..

[@salazarnecktwister9112]

The fall back line will be great for my Vietnam scenarios

[@ethansmith4503]

Thanks! I just bought the game and this was really helpful.

[@cantwakeupasmr1967]

draw a line to berlin win good combat system

[@Milesdondon]

Or alternatively micromanage every single unit, up to you.

[@materialmanners]

much more complicated i hope. you need oil and rubber then politics and diplomacies etc. this is my first hearts of iron so im going to have a tough few weeks learning.

[@Milesdondon]

Gabriel Saavedra The tutorial is far more Stellaris esque and I'm sure it will be very helpful.

[@Enchie]

So you want to control every last unit? You can do that.

[@ChestOfDoom]

you could literally do the same thing in hoi3, tell the ai to caputure berlin, war, win.

[@rileyhansen378]

This video was really good keep it up.

[@1-Eclipse1]

Thank you! do you have a video explaining planes? i have been stuck on them for a long time

[@josho1805]

Nice tutorial, it should've mentioned how you can alter the arrows to change how the unit progress through the battleplan.

[@rickyprocopio2989]

Are you still going to upload the last part of the last stream? Ive tried watching on twitch but its not letting me

[@jaxsonmitchell5210]

Thank you so much for this.

[@j-invariant]

Thank you so much for this video.

[@HypervoxelRBX]

This was very helpful, when is the next episode?

[@ernedoprapshass2687]

On tuesday, you can see it at end of the video.

[@deepsteep4748]

Tuesday.

[@andreasweigand2433]

This is a nice game......i think i will start playing this seriously.....waited so long for a good round based strategy !

[@Asatru55]

It's not round based it's real-time with the ability to pause at any time.

[@NO-sp5mt]

Thx a bunch. Easy peasy & makes a lot of sense. :)

[@censored9889]

Thanks! Really helpful!

[@uncletimo6059]

Yes, panzer divisions to Leningrad. Great move! All the terrain there is heavily forested, swamps and bogs. This is a game for 5 year olds.

[@liegia]

great tutorials!

[@DoubleBizzy]

Jake, shoulda made mention of the color change from green to yellow. I assume that's an estimate of how well that army can cover that size of a front?

[@RedeyeGaming]

His voice is sunshine melting butter on an early summer morning.

[@specialunit0428]

Thank you for teaching me what the division assignment mode button does :)

[@Moe_0]

Absolutely great

[@ES-mw8dt]

thanks sooooooo much subbed notis on and like!!!!

[@shinebox4181]

great video man

[@luke2029]

hi jake great video

[@shnirfel6087]

It looks Beautiful

[@DMS-pq8]

So is it better to have one very large army commanded by a Field Marshall or several smaller armies?

[@RellLP]

i had problem with the offensive line and i thought it was a glitch but i just didn't clicked the execute plan arrow on general... Thank you my man without ya i would be using a really not productive option.

[@MrUb3]

Can't wait to get my hands on this game!

[@justinian8104]

4 years and still no like for you

[@1LeXoR1]

Off-Topic: Will there be a Steam Workshop option as soon as the game comes out? I live in germany where its not allowed to show swatiska and hitler etc. but it is part of World War 2 so I want to mod it through the Workshop. Any info about that?

[@Interstellargaming]

The amount of times I have re watched this video is unreal

[@thel33tpenguinftw40]

Aww damnit, now I have to actually do work. Hoi3 was a game where I just got the AI to do everything for me and found it pretty damn relaxing to watch the provinces get taken

[@glent8719]

Can you see enemy battle plans, if you have higher decryption then the enemy ?

[@PeSTimE01]

worth every penny this game. can't wait till the 6th

[@PharosGames]

1:20 Yes Paradox, we know how a mouse works. You dont need to show it twice :P. Cant wait for HoI4 and this tutorial is great. :D

[@18eNick]

Can you show a tutorial of how supplies work and how to cut of enemies supplies.

[@markdufrene2443]

thanks this helped but i did not see how to remove the battle plans or front line. my line got splits and the men kept splitting up to go to both all the time and i could not delete either line completely

[@EmnelGaming]

I'm pretty sure you need to hold Alt to redraw battle lines. At least in the press copy version.

[@dammthedude]

Okay and what about PARA's? Thanks for this gonna help when I get to play it! :)

[@TheGerudan]

I really hope the system works. I'm not too sure, how you will be able to make good armored pincer movements with it, though. It seems you will be able to make every armor group a separat army and then have the infantry "garrison" the conquered area or so?

[@MrrGNB]

you can still control your units individually, even when they are part of a battle plan

[@TheGerudan]

zokr I know, but that would beat the point, if I end up ordering almost everything by hand again anyway.

[@MrrGNB]

TheGerudan well that is the beauty of the system it is competent enough to do the rough work, requiring you only to do the fine movements, but only if you want to

[@sundhaug92]

Not necessarily, you use the battle plan for the main work and micro manage for small opportunities you notice yourself

[@TheGerudan]

zokr If it will be anything like it was in HoI 3 the plan system couldn't even do the "rough work" since all movements have to be coordinated, pocket borders have to be defended and so on. It seems the system only works with headlong attacks. Well, I have to see next week if it will work or not, I guess.

[@saifaljahwari9458]

This is better than any 30-40 minute tutorials

[@lordoftheflings]

looks awesome

[@convert2380]

Question can i attack with out war goals or any generels

[@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44]

thanks!!! big help!

[@teencomment]

What would we do if we wanted to set up a defensive line? Is the Garrison Command or Fallback button the right way?

[@arcm4210]

Fallbackline the gartidon spreads over a whole state

[@Argondo]

the offensive line is also a defensive line as long as it has no battleplan started it will stay a defensive line and your units will entrench untill you start a battleplan.

[@cosmodeus1720]

so helpful, thank you. This is the most complicated game I've ever come across. Maybe the game just needs a better tutorial.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

Do all nations/factions have generic units or will say Germany have better infantry than say Italian etc...or can you end up with effective Italian infantry etc. Do the Japanese get an advantage in aviation early game? Things like this if you catch the drift...

[@steven03048]

How do I do the multi step plan? which keybord button or what ever. plz tell me!

[@TheGinger97100]

im still having a problem with the amphibious landing i select troops hit the button click on friendly port select target, but there is no estimated date of the preparation and it says 0 divisions 0 transports

[@marshallgamersofficial127]

Thanks You Help Me So Much

[@ricardomaccotta6367]

I think attrition is one of the more difficult parts of the game to understand how it works. What those numbers in the supply screen (F4) means? How to interpret them? What to do? (The general advice "improve your infrastructure" will do nothing if you do not understand what are you doing, why and in what order). I know there is a wiki for it, but half of the square of the multiplication of something is not my strong point :) TX

[@SangerZonvolt]

I hope that with those invasion plans needing time to prepare my spies can find out about them and warn me before they actually start. Would add a new layer to the whole espionage part of the game.

[@jeroylenkins1745]

multi-step plan, what button do you hit to do it?

[@pioagvino18]

How was the vacation jake?

[@blackanimals6337]

Very nice video.

[@rtwonmac]

top notch!

[@patrykK1028]

How did you get an army with 106 (!) divisions and no penalty? I would have to make that 5 seperate armies, which is also 5 times more drawing etc.

[@frostedtips2112]

Very helpful 👌 nice

[@franz_stigler]

it's sooooooo close I can't wait

[@DerZocker2000000]

you forgot to mention planning bonus

[@simonwalker4358]

thanks for the Video very good

[@-zerenity-2322]

How to not make divisions auto merge with the first army when assigning them to the fall back line?

[@REMMc-jx7vc]

Hardly wait for June 6th !!!!

[@anodynemathematician4194]

Thanks for the backstory of Soviet Struggle

[@thomasmarshall6473]

How did he get that many divisions on one general or field Marshal?

[@Viazoz]

Can't wait the 6th of june!!

[@hellrless1]

Nice guide :)