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Surray

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Hearts of Iron 3 - Video Tutorials

Welcome!

Here you will find a listing of all my video tutorials for Hearts of Iron 3 on youtube.
Pick the Playlist if you want to watch the whole series or the individual links if you're looking for something specific!



Hearts of Iron III - Their Finest Hour Tutorials
  1. AI Army Control Introduction & Allied Objectives
  2. Supply System Overview


Hearts of Iron III - For the Motherland - Basic Tutorial Series (Complete)
Playlist containing all episodes
  1. Episode I - Options
  2. Episode II - Interface Overview
  3. Episode III - Diplomacy
  4. Episode IV - Production
  5. Episode V - Technology
  6. Episode VI - Politics
  7. Episode VII - Intelligence
  8. Episode VIII - Military Part I
  9. Episode IX - Military Part II



Order of Battle Tutorial (Complete)
Playlist containing both parts
  1. Order of Battle Tutorial - Part 1 - Theory
  2. Order of Battle Tutorial - Part 2 - Execution



Theatre Creation Tutorial (Complete)
  1. Theatre Creation Tutorial


I will continue updating this thread as I release new tutorials.
Feel free to post feedback,suggestions, etc, here or in the YouTube video comments, I read it all, I promise!

Thanks!
 
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You deserve them! Could I ask one thing though - what is the best starting country in your opinion?

I'm having a hard time finding a country where I can get my head around everything!
 
Oh that's a tough question...
You know.. some people suggest the USA because you can't really lose and can go at your own pace, others suggest germany because you have your whole country in 1 spot with no colonies or islands or whatever.
If you ask me there is no best starting choice for everyone. It's best to start with a country you want to try. You'll learn enough so that you can later move on to other countries and learn just things more specific to those countries as you go.
The basics are the same for all countries anyway.

Personally I started playing as japan which was tough, but I like japan so that's what I went with. It interested me enough to keep me invested in the game and care enough to learn how to handle it.

If you don't really have any specific country you want to try though, I'd say germany is a good choice. It helps that you know what you're supposed to do historically. So you already have your goals set out for you and you
just have to worry about how to do it in game, instead of having to come up with your own goals.
You may very well lose the war but that is also part of the learning process and losing can teach you a lot about what you can do better next time.
With the USA for example you can do whatever and be fine, which doesn't facilitate learning how to deal with challenges too well.
 
i heard the music ath the start and was like "DEV DARIY! YAH!" subbed and liked anbd all the ussal youtube jaz, they look good.

second on the sticky this post, maybe a sticky on FTM guides with this and misterbeans AAR (is that still going, i know he had forum issues)
 
Oh that's a tough question...
You know.. some people suggest the USA because you can't really lose and can go at your own pace, others suggest germany because you have your whole country in 1 spot with no colonies or islands or whatever.
If you ask me there is no best starting choice for everyone. It's best to start with a country you want to try. You'll learn enough so that you can later move on to other countries and learn just things more specific to those countries as you go.
The basics are the same for all countries anyway.

Personally I started playing as japan which was tough, but I like japan so that's what I went with. It interested me enough to keep me invested in the game and care enough to learn how to handle it.

If you don't really have any specific country you want to try though, I'd say germany is a good choice. It helps that you know what you're supposed to do historically. So you already have your goals set out for you and you
just have to worry about how to do it in game, instead of having to come up with your own goals.
You may very well lose the war but that is also part of the learning process and losing can teach you a lot about what you can do better next time.
With the USA for example you can do whatever and be fine, which doesn't facilitate learning how to deal with challenges too well.



Thanks for that, I think I will stick with Germany as I don't like having colonies everywhere! :p
 
DAT radio voice. I could easily fall asleep with this :p