HOI4 Guide | Beginners Tutorial (2024 Version) - P3
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Where's the Money? What are Civilian Factories for? (Seems BORING - DO NOT skip,, or you WILL LOSE). This episode takes us 11th Jan - 31st Jan 1936
Hearts of Iron 4 has a very unique game mechanic when it comes to dealing with these issues, and it's so important to wrap your mind around, I dedicated an entire chapter to it.
It's not that bad though - we'll also look at Equipment vs Manpower vs Recruitment, and more.
Ensure if you following along to start at the beginning of the playlist New & updated for 2024 here: • HOI4 Guide - Beginners...
Contents:
0:00 HOI4 Tutorial - Part 3
0:52 Civ Factories - The Builders
9:55 Consumer Goods
16:42 Missing Equipment Production
20:02 Weapons vs Divisions vs People
21:25 Recruiting New Divisions
28:52 Major Panzer Shortages
33:52 Unassigned Divisions - New Armies!
44:00 Air Force Basics
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One way to think about civilian factories is by considering that in real life money is just an abstraction of production. When you work for a company, you are helping that company produce a good or service. The money you receive accounts for your contribution, such that you can trade that money for someone else's production or the fruit of.
In HOI4 we skip the added complexity of converting to and from money, and instead trade in production directly
You explained it far better than I did, and in just 30 seconds! Thank you, I might just pinch that in the next episode.
Barter times, kingdom of pre-money sapiens economicus geniuses
It's a wargame simulating the preparation of WW2. If a government, elected or authoritarian, wanted to rearm or build a new base somewhere in preparation of another world war, it would have happened. If they lacked money to budget for it, it would be borrowed through government bonds or foreign creditors. Money was not a problem during WWII and no country went "welp, I got no money left in my Treasury and no creditors, guess I am gonna raise my hands in the air and stop fighting." They always found someone lending credit to these states even if meant repaying for decades afterwards. Even countries that were completely destroyed industrially, like Germany and Japan.
It also fits perfectly with the communist and dictatorship ideas in this game.
I prefer to think of it like government contracts. The government is just contracting the civilian factories that aren't producing commodities for public consumption to produce whatever the government needs.
In more (wholly unnecessary to the understanding of the game mechanics) detail, the government just prints money and gives the factory owners whatever they need to cover their costs and provide a profit for the owners that'll be enough for them not to fuck off to another country where they can make more, then extracting whatever currency is necessary to maintain "sustainable" economic growth (ignoring the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and whatnot) and moderate crises through taxes afterward. At least within capitalist nations, anyway. The socialist ones just bypass the contract part and issue production orders based on democratically-moderated central planning since the industries are nationalized (typically, unless we're dealing with some weird syndicalist economy or something).
This is actually why I really like how the production side of things in this game is handled. From what I've seen so far, anyway. It abstracts things away to the point where the system works and makes sense regardless of what economic system it's laid over, regardless of whether you're aware of the fine detail of what's happening "underneath the hood" from nation to nation. At least for now, anyway. I haven't seen how a socialist nation functions yet, though I'm not sure why it'd be much different (if at all).
16:06 "it took me 2 years to wrap my head around that concept" and it took you on 6 minutes to explain it in a way that me and many others understand it. Great job, enjoying your tutorial series so far. I wanted to learn this game and see if it was worth buying during the free weekend but could not figure anything out even after watching those 30 min tutorials. I ponied up the $10 after finding your tutorials.
Hello and thank you for a wonderful and very detailed Gaide. Thank you very much for doing this.
Excellent! Thank you!
tysm for sharing your knowledge not just about the game, but also about history! much love from the netherlands!
hey i just wanted to say that ur vidoes help me alot thanks and keep it up
hi man,
love your content, still dont really understand the factorys, maby take some more time to explain it next time ;)
also little mistake i noticed with muy eagle eye, its actully not 'her' (with one e). its actually 'heer' (with 2 ee's)
for the rest keep up the jolly good work mate, i adore you to the maxium amount possible
(btw are you married? if not im available ;))
Thanks!
Thank you so much for you generous tip! Regarding your comment from yesterday about the timing of the Spanish civil war - it will always vary some... What got need to be able to do is send over the panzer divisions. If it happens again, I suggest you continue the tutorial as closely as possible, and either:
1) continue the tutorial, and send the Spanish volunteers at the same time I do - in other words, miss a few weeks fighting. The war latest 36-39 in real life, so there should be time. Once you've done it a time or two, you'll get the hang of it.
2) I'm going to do a separate video, just for the Spanish civil war, as many people are experiencing it at different times. I'll try insert it, outside the tutorial series, as a "if Spanish war starts early, watch this specific video."
Thanks again for your generosity, and giving me the prompt to address the Spanish civil war properly - together with the other comments regarding the similar issue, it's finally twisted my arm into addressing it properly!
The more is see about HoI i wish there would be a game that combine Hoi with games like Steel Division 2 or Ruse.
Tried to play this game and I can't beat the tutorial. I'm getting my butt whooped by Ethiopia.
At 41:35 giving general Friedrich Paulus the command over the 6th Army is remarkable, did you do this by coincidence? In real history Paulus is known as the commander of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad were early 1943 his army was destroyed by the Russians, being the turning tide of World War II in Europe.
The tide was turned when Mr A.H Mustache man declared war on the US and Soviet Union at the same time.
Had Mr mustache taken his time he could’ve won everything…..
pretty scary to think about
Thank you mate, great toturials 👏
I do like your style ;)
It's Heer with double e so its spoken a bit longer than with one e (her don't exist in the german language I think). But Heer is some kind of an old word for army, normally we use Armee today, not Heer.
I don't think they work for free. You pay them with civilian factories. There are ways that get them payed less therefore you get more civilian factories.
OHHHHHHH. I never saw the area defense part. I was wondering how the hell you got 72 units. That seems a little bs.
I got the exact same guy falling sick at the same moment on my second monitor😂
Lol, he talk so slow that I use 1.5x speed and still look like a normal person talking😂 nice tutorial BTW