The best nation for noob?

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1.What is the best nation for a noob?
2.What should i do if i choose Turkey?
3.How can the nation take more resources?
4. How can i have more transport capacity (TC)
5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?


very helpfully if you anser this noob questions.

 

[humancalculator]

1.Soviet Union and Germany '36 for gameplay, Germany '39 for combat, and any USA scenario as they are impossible to beat.

2.build up a large military, attack Greece, and Bulgaria, join the Axis, and gobble up whatever you can find. Make sure you dont get into a war with Italy.

3.u can either trade for them or you can take over other countries. or u can use cheats. post or edit your existing post if u want to know the cheats.

4.research industrial techs, and infantry techs (the ones that are towards the bottom left, all alone and not connected to the other ones.) reduce partisans and i think infrastructure helps.

5. Garrison divisions with Military Police added to them.
Edit: make sure that you right click the province they are in and select 'anti-partisan duty'. oh, and remember that garrison units can only strategically redeploy so make sure u can do that. (an industrial tech allows u to do that).

 

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TC is most directly influenced by industrial capacity. I think it's IC * 1,5 = TC, not counting modifiers like technology. I think (although can't remember for sure) that some land doctrines improve transport capacity as well.

The part about techs is easy to check out yourself. You should have info on what it does in the technology's description. Just ask here or look on the wiki if you don't understand some acronyms.

 

[sbr]

1.What is the best nation for a noob?

Depends on what you want

1. Germany-You will be knee deep from the start, it is probably the best way to learn the game but expect to fail in the beginning.

2. USSR-More than enough IC, resources, and manpower. One very focused goal for the game. It should be very hard for even a noob to lose as the USSR if they are at all competent.

3. USA-No pressure to attack anyone or defend yourself. Lots of time to sit back and learn how everything except combat works. A lot of people think it is too boring but this was my first country. I f I started with Germany I probably would have gotten frustrated with the game and quit playing it. It all depends on how you best learn.

2.What should i do if i choose Turkey?

I haven't played Turkey but humancalculator covered that well.

3.How can the nation take more resources?

Trade. If you conquer a province that is not a core you will only get ~50% of the resources from that province.

4. How can i have more transport capacity (TC)

Build IC(factories)

5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?

As humancalculator said Garrisons. Note that they also affect the adjacent provinces so a 'checkerboard' pattern will be most effective.

very helpfully if you anser this noob questions.

Welcome to the forums.

 

[sbr]

TC is most directly influenced by industrial capacity. I think it's IC * 1,5 = TC, not counting modifiers like technology. I think (although can't remember for sure) that some land doctrines improve transport capacity as well.

I think the techs you mean are in the infantry section.

 

[vota dc]

1.What is the best nation for a noob?
2.What should i do if i choose Turkey?
3.How can the nation take more resources?
4. How can i have more transport capacity (TC)
5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?


very helpfully if you anser this noob questions.

1 Use Argentina or Brazil and fight a local war.Don't join axis or allies,just remember to give a lot of cash to USA or they will attack you.If you do so you will fight a lot of weaker enemy and you will learn to play.The only serious war is Brazil vs Argentina.Remember:never attack any countries that is a member of one of the three alliances.
2 Allies won't help you,join Comintern or Axis.Else you can play cautios,just attack weaker independent nations,is very easy to annex Syria and Lebanon.
3 AI is stupid:they will give you a lot of resource just for supplies.
4 You need IC.So build factories and move the slider to central planned.
5 Use units with high level of suppression.

 

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5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?

Everyone has answered these well, but I thought I'd make an additional comment re partisans.

Make sure you keep your dissent level at 0.00. Your top slider in the production screen (domestic goods, luxury goods, whatever it is - I'm at work and don't have access to the screen to check and I can't remember!) will help you reduce this if you set it higher than the minimum required. Note you should ONLY do this when you have a dissent level - once it is 0, you only need to allocate enough production to keep this at the status quo.

Dissent adds to partisan activity, so if you have any you want to reduce it ASAP.

Cheers

 

[Draigh]

Consumer goods.

 

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From what I've seen so far, in terms of dissent an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Once your dissent has jumped to 5 or 10%, it's gonna take a shitload of IC-days to reduce. In my last game, when I'm aiming for a per-day reduction of 0,05%, I have to drop roughly double the IC I'd need for status quo into consumer goods. Not very economical, seeing how you don't net much coin on CG anyway. Then again, in a capitalistic open society your CG production is probably much better.

I said above that it's better to aim for using an "ounce of prevention". The funny thing is, even by the ounce prevention is hard to come by. From time to time you're gonna get hit by dissent no matter what you do. Not that I'm complaining, it's realistic that way. I mean, no country is gonna be able to please everybody, especially in times of war and/or when said government isn't exactly democratic.

 

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1.What is the best nation for a noob?
2.What should i do if i choose Turkey?
3.How can the nation take more resources?
4. How can i have more transport capacity (TC)
5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?


very helpfully if you anser this noob questions.

1. Canada is the best in my opinion - you have no risk of being invaded and can learn how to build up an economy and eventually a military. Canada starts with basically nothing in 1936 but can grow into a major power by 1945 - giving you the chance to build them all the way up. Germany is a horrible suggestion for a noob country (I don't consider inevitable war with any major power to be a good training country). As Canada you will enter the war but have the luxury to take your time and/or experiment, unlike the USA, which will be expected to perform or the war is lost. The USA already has a (basic) navy built and a massive IC just starting off, and I think its better to learn when you have to build everything up yourself.

2. My advice to you is not to select Turkey if you are a beginner - they are at a very vulnerable (and critical) area and will only allow a few mistakes. If you insist: http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Turkey_strategy

3. You can't create more resources, the only way to get new resources is either through trade or by capturing provinces.

4. More IC (factories) the more TC, also, there are some techs which increase TC (most of which are on the infantry research tab)

5. Create garrison units with military police brigades and deploy them to the partisan provinces.

 

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I started out playing as the Balkan nations, Hungary still being my favorite. You have plenty of time to build up and slowly learn the intricacies of the game and eventually you can create a nation about the size of Germany before the invasion of France...however you don't have the resources to take them on without help.
So I started out by playing Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, and then spread out from there.
I've tried Turkey a couple of times, but every time I tried to invade Bulgaria, the Soviets attacked me...not much fun.
Another beginner nation would probably be the Chinese Warlord States. I've had a lot of fun playing as Xbei San Ma, Guanxi Clique, and Yunnan. Those nations are good for beginners since the tech tree stinks, and you really have to stick to the basics with your military.

Happy Playing!

 

[Valorious]

1.What is the best nation for a noob?
2.What should i do if i choose Turkey?
3.How can the nation take more resources?
4. How can i have more transport capacity (TC)
5. How can i reduce the partisan attack thing...(there is a weapon )?


very helpfully if you anser this noob questions.

The most forgiving country to start with is probably the USA. You can make many mistakes and still win...and you can win with multiple different strategies. Some of the countries that you play have scripted events and if you are not a student of the events surrounding WWII, you wont have a good understanding of these events as they fire during the game...Germany is one of those.

Another way to reduce partisan activity is to release the country...free them. Democracies and allied governments take very little penalty doing so and it will earn you an ally/puppet (who will feed you resources) and you dont have any partisan activity from those territories.

 

[Valorious]

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