Best country to pick

It depends on which doctrine you want to play and your play style.

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It also depends on the map! There are different maps to suit different players - I recommend Clash of Nations and Historic World War for newer players, and World at War and Antarctica for more experienced players looking for a challenge.

HWW is not a good idea for new players! Do america homefront instead. That map is usually not too challenging but still spicy enough to learn a thing or two. HWW is balanced semi-historically, so a new player would be crushed by any competent major power (there usually is at least one) and even if you get a major, you have to move fast in the early game so you are not swamped by endless AI hordes thanks to inactive majors. I recommend you try to find people to play that map with you, as it usually is rather boring since most players go inactive. But, if you do find players and can micro well enough, it is easily the best map in the game.

Carking the 6th wrote:

HWW is not a good idea for new players! Do america homefront instead. That map is usually not too challenging but still spicy enough to learn a thing or two. HWW is balanced semi-historically, so a new player would be crushed by any competent major power (there usually is at least one) and even if you get a major, you have to move fast in the early game so you are not swamped by endless AI hordes thanks to inactive majors. I recommend you try to find people to play that map with you, as it usually is rather boring since most players go inactive. But, if you do find players and can micro well enough, it is easily the best map in the game.

trust me carking homefront is more AI people than HWW, because its an auto pick for new accounts which go ai. hww 99% of time they are all shite players so u wont find anyone competant! newbies love the idea of historically accurate stuff soo

Literally one competent major in HWW means that all newbies are dead and that they have to chance. It wouldn’t be fair to throw them in there. Newbies play home front all the time so it’s a semi-decent learning experience that usually keeps like 5 active players for them to deal with.

Carking the 6th wrote:

Literally one competent major in HWW means that all newbies are dead and that they have to chance. It wouldn’t be fair to throw them in there. Newbies play home front all the time so it’s a semi-decent learning experience that usually keeps like 5 active players for them to deal with.

just send them they love it they love it dw

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You know what? Suffering builds character. Send them over…

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