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Anonymous No.714198718 >>714198914 >>714199004 >>714205120 >>714205562
>can't even best ethiopia during the tutorial
am i retarded?
Anonymous No.714198914
>>714198718 (OP)
mussolini get off 4chan
Anonymous No.714199004
>>714198718 (OP)
>t.
Anonymous No.714199006 >>714199613
yeah, you’re pretty retarded. im pretty dogshit at these games, barely passed high school, and i usually only play action RPGs. but, beating Ethiopia wasn’t really hard. you’re probably like really really retarded
Anonymous No.714199613 >>714200027 >>714200152 >>714200159
>>714199006
how did you solve the supply situation?
Anonymous No.714200027
>>714199613
Use less units.
You do not need your entire army to beat Ethiopia, you can beat them with 24 divisions or less even.
Anonymous No.714200152 >>714200264 >>714200395
>>714199613
Select all supply hubs you use (there are 3 in Ethiopia I think) and put them on 2 trucks
Anonymous No.714200159
>>714199613
idk man. i just followed the tutorial and did my best to follow what it told me. then, i beat Ethiopia
Anonymous No.714200264
>>714200152
Is it not easier and better to just set the Field Marshal he is under to high motorization?
Anonymous No.714200395 >>714200690
>>714200152
i did but im bogged down just outside addis ababa now because it's all red
Anonymous No.714200690 >>714201168
>>714200395
That is your main objective and you should try to take it without stacking all enemy troops on it. Try to exploit gaps and take as much territory as you can to stretch the ai units, then attack the capital from 2-3 sides to take it and you win the war. Don't forget to bomb them with CAS.
Anonymous No.714201168 >>714201258
>>714200690
alright i finally did it, taking a ton of territory first helped a lot. it took half a year and they went into exile, but i finally did it
on rookie
Anonymous No.714201258 >>714201564 >>714203409
>>714201168
Do not play on Rookie, do not play any strategy game on a lower difficulty if you actually want to learn it. If you just want to have fun and thats all its fine but for the purpose of learning it will teach you to play wrong. Things which would not normally work are not punished so yeah do not do that.
Anonymous No.714201564 >>714201803
>>714201258
i tried on regular first and got raped, it's probably the most overwhelming game i've ever played
Anonymous No.714201803 >>714202464 >>714202784
>>714201564
Do you have any bros you could play it with? Just playing with a guy on mic live can teach you a lot of things very easily, way more simply than a tutorial video or the games actual tutorial itself can. Any time I have ever shown someone the game I have them play Italy first but I play it with them in multiplayer rather than having them sit through the actual tutorial.
Anonymous No.714202464 >>714202980 >>714203106
>>714201803
all my friends are addicted to cs, lol etc, im the only one in my group playing autistic sp stuff lol
i have looked at some youtube vids but i don't want to constantly pause and watch a vid while playing. the ingame tutorial feels so shallow and unhelpful
Anonymous No.714202784 >>714202980
>>714201803
the only other strategy games ive played are total war (extremely shallow strategy aspect) and civ. it's not really my genre but hoi4 is just so fucking cool and i love wwii
Anonymous No.714202980 >>714203718
>>714202464
You need to get yourself autistic Paradox bros.
I can offer but not if you do not use a mic, I have not done text only chat since I got my first mic as a teenager. I cannot imagine teaching any Paradox game only through text, it would be gay.
>>714202784
Played those too and far before I got into any paradox game. In some respects they actually have more depth in some very specific ways. I have played a ton of strategy games though, so I have a lot more to compare it to then just those.
Anonymous No.714203106
>>714202464
The in game tutorials are dogshit aside from teaching you the utter basics, you either need to learn by doing or look shit up online.
That said, you should not be struggling with Ethiopia (as a complete beginner it shouldn't take you longer than, at the absolute most, the start of 37).
Anonymous No.714203409 >>714204579
>>714201258
This
The only time to play on an easy mode is maybe your very first game or two when you're literally learning the controls and mechanics for the first time
You'll learn bad habits, think invalid things are fine, and so on if you learn anything beyond the most basic mechanics on easy
Anonymous No.714203718 >>714204407
>>714202980
i appreciate the offer very much but im almost getting anxiety from even thinking about speaking english with a stranger on mic
Anonymous No.714204407 >>714204745
>>714203718
Alright well good luck anyway Anon.
Anonymous No.714204579
>>714203409
Yeah pretty much learning the controls is the extent of it but even that seems like a waste of time to me. Unless you quite literally have not played at least 10 video games then switching difficulties is just a waste of time. Most of the controls tend to be intuitive. The only games that come to mind that are not are Ascii Rougelikes and Arma.
Anonymous No.714204745
>>714204407
thanks i won't give up
Anonymous No.714204752 >>714204868
Wait till he gets to Navy
Anonymous No.714204868 >>714205628
>>714204752
Why is navy so fucking gay? I have played for hundreds of hours and while I understand it there is never a point where it is vaguely interesting.
How could they even fix it?
Anonymous No.714205120 >>714205772
>>714198718 (OP)
nah Italy just has a shitty army. I suggest start as Argentina and slowly conquer South America before delving into complex fights against the Allies or Axis
Anonymous No.714205562 >>714205691 >>714205972
>>714198718 (OP)
I also struggled, did the tutorial again and again, now I don't even understand what was going wrong for me. I kept running out of supply, but even without changing the motorization, it doesn't happen to me anymore.

Sail all of your divisions to Africa. You want to split your force in two, one half attacking the north and one attacking the south. Both should have generals, both should be under a field marshall. Set your planes - and I mean all of them, from Italy too - to the northern Ethiopia, give them air missions. Make sure that planes don't overcrowd the airfield.
Make sure you don't run out of supply. Switch to the supply map mode, change the motorization levels until Ethiopia is blue.
This is probably the important part. After you set the offensive line, hover your mouse over your divisions. It will show the division's progress to full planning. Only hit "execute" button when the planning is maxed out. Set the generals to perform the plan aggressively.
After the troops capture the first city marked with a star, look for other starred cities. Capturing them is how you win wars. Direct your troops manually if you need it. Likewise, direct your troops manually if you think you can encircle.
Your generals have special abilities (field marshall only has one). Use them to attack better.

You do NOT need to build anything in Ethiopia (that is not built through the early national idea). You do not need to build any additional divisions. The war is easily won with what you have at the start.
Anonymous No.714205628 >>714205869
>>714204868
>How could they even fix it?
They are actually changing the navy right now, in the next update.
Anonymous No.714205691
>>714205562
Oh, and one more thing - Viva il Duce.
Anonymous No.714205772
>>714205120
>I suggest staring at your screen for a few years instead of actually playing the game
Good suggestion.
Anonymous No.714205869 >>714205972
>>714205628
I'll believe it when I see it.
Anonymous No.714205873 >>714205971
I have 1k hours in this game and I still don't know how the navy works
Anonymous No.714205971
>>714205873
Just exploits whatever the ai sucks at.
Anonymous No.714205972 >>714206282
>>714205562
>This is probably the important part. After you set the offensive line, hover your mouse over your divisions. It will show the division's progress to full planning. Only hit "execute" button when the planning is maxed out. Set the generals to perform the plan aggressively.
One more note - you can let the planning tick to the cap before declaring war. You don't need to stand around like a jackass.

>>714205869
I didn't say they are fixing the navy, I said they're changing it.
Anonymous No.714206282
>>714205972
Yeah but they already changed it, it was shit then too. Its like when they told us they were changing resistance and all it really did was make us create invisible divisions instead of ones that would actually theoretically do stuff on the map too.
I feel like that was an attempt at both performance and to make it easier on the retarded Ai to handle it but they still do not help much with either.