I started playing HoI IV with TNO, first game was with the WRRF and it was actually ok (nothing but pure border wars), then the game glitches due to a new patch dropping in and I decided to restart as Comrade Sablin because I was told it's hard as fuck to beat ghoulish Yagoda, but I did it anyways. Then I beat the living shit out of the Tsarists, the Anarcho-Christian dudes and the Fascists (The Nazis of Amur got completely yeeted), so everything was going great. Rurik II won Central Siberia and Omsk was battling out Zhukov, I wasn't even prepared, Rurik rolled through my country and the True Socialist Dream ended. My units basically desintegrated against Rurik's infantry, 4 of my units just melted under attack from one of theirs, my only tank division was literally worthless.
So yeah, I think starting with basic HoI IV is the way to go.
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I love TNO but I wouldn't recommend it until you get the hang of base Hoi4.
I started playing HoI IV with TNO, first game was with the WRRF and it was actually ok (nothing but pure border wars), then the game glitches due to a new patch dropping in and I decided to restart as Comrade Sablin because I was told it's hard as fuck to beat ghoulish Yagoda, but I did it anyways. Then I beat the living shit out of the Tsarists, the Anarcho-Christian dudes and the Fascists (The Nazis of Amur got completely yeeted), so everything was going great. Rurik II won Central Siberia and Omsk was battling out Zhukov, I wasn't even prepared, Rurik rolled through my country and the True Socialist Dream ended. My units basically desintegrated against Rurik's infantry, 4 of my units just melted under attack from one of theirs, my only tank division was literally worthless.
So yeah, I think starting with basic HoI IV is the way to go.
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