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  • Опубліковано 30 сер 2022
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  • @dannydacheedo1592
    @dannydacheedo1592 Рік тому +6406

    You can't cuck the lux

  • @beefedupkronks4371
    @beefedupkronks4371 Рік тому +6319

    Kills 1 million germans but still gets 0 war participation.
    I love how hoi4 calculates war participation based more on how many casualties you take instead of how many casualties you cause.

    • @old_kasr1155
      @old_kasr1155 Рік тому +474

      BBA update has fixed that.

    • @rebelfriend9006
      @rebelfriend9006 Рік тому +192

      And he is playing with road to 56 so it might work differently

    • @hugo57k91
      @hugo57k91 Рік тому +34

      @@old_kasr1155 what does bba stand for

    • @desjay7072
      @desjay7072 Рік тому +170

      @@hugo57k91 It’s the newest hearts of iron 4 DLC it’s an abbreviation BBA means by blood alone

    • @brainrot___
      @brainrot___ Рік тому +410

      Luxembourg soldiers going home with PTSD with an average KD of 100 people, and they hear that their country wasn't given any compensation from the war

  • @thinkingboi9508
    @thinkingboi9508 Рік тому +1830

    Imagine living in Luxemburg, having a constant battlefield happening not far from you 24/7 knowing danm well your country is a sleepy soldier away from total capitulation

    • @frankfrankfrankfrankfrank
      @frankfrankfrankfrankfrank Рік тому +182

      the only solution is while on guard duty or combat duty all soldiers must be on NONSTOP METH

    • @MyUsersDark
      @MyUsersDark 7 місяців тому +70

      @@frankfrankfrankfrankfrank Luxembourg contracts Heisenberg to cook for them

    • @definitelynotstalin4306
      @definitelynotstalin4306 6 місяців тому +52

      @@MyUsersDark jesse, mir musse kachen

    • @Javyhat
      @Javyhat 6 місяців тому

      we will pay you after the war mr heisenberg@@MyUsersDark

    • @normimemes7059
      @normimemes7059 6 місяців тому +24

      Yo dont have to imagine you just described Palestine

  • @georgemurdock7670
    @georgemurdock7670 Рік тому +1773

    "I wish i where at the eastern front. I heard all they had to deal with is being outnumbered 4 to 1 and a heavy winter" -German soldier, Luxemburgian front, 1943

    • @thinkingboi9508
      @thinkingboi9508 Рік тому +427

      "My dear love, it has been three years since i've sent to attack the Defiant's Wall. Pride turned to fear, and fear turned to boredom.
      At first it was somewhat thrilling, running across that no man's land, now i just stay behind the pile of corpses waiting until nightfall before sneaking back to the trenches, apparently this is common amongst the "Old Guard"
      "Old". I am not even out of my twenties.
      They always come up with the "solution" to the "Luxembourg question", wonder weapons, a new type of gas or a genious tactic, all of them fall apart in their first hours agaisnt the Defiant's Wall, beaten by guns made from the last war.
      We all heard about Moscow's capitulation, yet no one cheered, we just stared at the radio as rain poured in and mud filled our trenches, i looked behind me and saw a flash of light followed by a gunshot coming from the one of the Defiant's bunkers, blood plastered agaisnt the bunker's interiors.
      There was a fight between the generals, some wanted to nuke the whole place while others argued that doing so was admitting defeat, that the Luxemburgs beat us.
      Anyway, the plane was sent to London but unfourtunately it fell into the British Channel alongside our hopes of winning this war. The Allies landed on Normady a month ago and i plan on running away the moment they reach the wall and surrendering to the first squad i see, i just can't handle it anymore.
      I haven’t been receiving letters from you, i am not sure if the convoys are being gunned down by the Allies' planes, if some SS agent is discarding mine or if the bombers have reached Dresden."- Letter from a hanged German soldier, dated "15/06/1948"

    • @EremisYamamoto
      @EremisYamamoto Рік тому +100

      @@thinkingboi9508 this turned darker than i actually wanted lmao

    • @canon-de-75
      @canon-de-75 Рік тому +123

      @@thinkingboi9508 Notable publications on the Luxembourg nation-fortress holdouts:
      Mid-1940 “BRITISH PATHÉ: SUMMER SPECIAL: Heroic pilots fight off the Jerry’s blitz, Italo Bablo’s Escertio in hard fighting with us over Egypt, and finally, the amazing fortifications that keep Luxembourg safe from the Nazi jackboot that trampled Western Europe
      Fall of USSR “WE ARE NOT DEFEATED”: Speech by Winston Churchill after the treaty of Vladivostok, extolling the continued courage of the Luxembourgish people as an example to the rest of the world.
      1950 “GERMAN-LUXEMBOURGISH CEASEFIRE”: Luxembourg and Germany race to acquire nuclear weapons. In the end, Luxembourg gets them first thanks to British-Norwegian sabotage of the already weak German nuclear program. The Allies land nuclear bombers in Luxembourg and the Rhineland is bombed. Germany agrees to a very limited deal. The Netherlands, Belgium and northern France are freed.
      Post Capitalist-Fascist Cold War: “WORLD WAR 2 AND LUXEMBOURG: NATION FORGED IN FIRE”: Before 1936, Luxembourg was a demilitarized, minuscule trade hub state. After, it remains respected the world over for being able to punch well above its weight. Here’s the whole story.
      Modern day: “THE GREATEST LIE OF THE 20th CENTURY” Luxembourg’s fight to the end is embedded in western pop culture even today. But: growing evidence comes to show it never even happened- and was merely a desperate attempt to discredit Axis military might (TV episode made by a imperial Japanese front organization, widely discredited)

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому +30

      @@thinkingboi9508
      But I thought Luxembourg got Nuked in 47 according to the maker of this video

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому +14

      @@canon-de-75
      Ahh obviously there would be non Believers.
      There always are.

  • @Mate-vg2ft
    @Mate-vg2ft Рік тому +939

    “The last bastion of democracy in Europe”

    • @trygveplaustrum4634
      @trygveplaustrum4634 Рік тому +12

      I thought Luxembourg was a duchy?

    • @Mate-vg2ft
      @Mate-vg2ft Рік тому +33

      @@trygveplaustrum4634 honestly got no clue.

    • @jamiefenwick8359
      @jamiefenwick8359 Рік тому +40

      @@trygveplaustrum4634 I think it was (and is) a constitutional duchy. So a democracy.

    • @simonnachreiner8380
      @simonnachreiner8380 Рік тому

      It was in fact a duchy during the world wars. Modern day it’s a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch.
      Frackin Europeans and their micro states

    • @manender1020
      @manender1020 Рік тому +11

      @@jamiefenwick8359 constitutional duchy is not parliamentary constitutional duchy (if I called it right), so it's not so democratic
      More like "the last Bastion of liberalism in Europe"

  • @almcmemeshack8443
    @almcmemeshack8443 Рік тому +3648

    Imagine being a German soldier who’s been grinding against Luxembourg’s gigabased fortifications for 5 years straight, you’re exhausted and worn down from war, and 24 hours of every day you just hear the Coconut Mall playing nonstop

  • @projectember728
    @projectember728 Рік тому +4160

    Nothing like losing millions of men to conquer the least strategic land in the entire game😎

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +433

      TBF the entire war was pretty much a combination of vanity project and desperately scrambling to postpone inevitable economic collapse.
      So I can buy the OKW continuing offensives against a single tiny nation just to justify manufacturing and out of a sense of wounded pride.

    • @projectember728
      @projectember728 Рік тому +82

      @@halfpasteight how long do you think you can survive for(if you hate yourself enough to play more of this save)?

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +245

      @@projectember728 On my own without competent allies? As noted elsewhere, Germany generally develops nukes in '46-47 and after the UK falls I can't maintain sufficient air supremacy to stop them from dropping. Even with maxed out jet fighters they just have better planes, and more of them.
      With competent allies? Basically until they make a landing in the low countries and push a wedge towards me. After that it's a W.
      So with the AI it's 50/50 between "it all ends in '47" and "I win hehe". With players? A competent German player can crack Luxembourg, at high cost. But competent Allies can hold the front anyways. So it depends from there.

    • @kriegertechpriest7011
      @kriegertechpriest7011 Рік тому +99

      Its not about the resources, its about the message

    • @projectember728
      @projectember728 Рік тому +4

      @@kriegertechpriest7011 😌

  • @JonathanToolonie
    @JonathanToolonie Рік тому +630

    France who watches Lux in disbelief: What's he doing?
    Britain: He's beginning to believe.

  • @gabrielb5742
    @gabrielb5742 Рік тому +4343

    I hate when i'm defending against the Axis in a minor power and they just cap the soviets too, i know there's a 1M manpower deluge marching right at my direction.

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +853

      Believe it or not in this game I managed to hold out until I got nuked in '47.
      Even with the entire Eastern Front at my doorstep I still somehow managed it.

    • @dreamypizza8458
      @dreamypizza8458 Рік тому +925

      @@halfpasteight bros had to nuke luxembourg to defeat the 5 luxembourgian divisions

    • @scoreandspore.5606
      @scoreandspore.5606 Рік тому +121

      @@dreamypizza8458 💀

    • @fargoth391
      @fargoth391 Рік тому +687

      @@halfpasteight THE COUNTRY CRACKED BEFORE THE GUARD DID

    • @kennysar
      @kennysar Рік тому +13

      @@dreamypizza8458 😂😂😂

  • @PokerageAH
    @PokerageAH Рік тому +523

    I like how theres also a few Greek Divisions and 1 Danish Division also holding out in Fortress Luxembourg™

    • @user-wc6su7lw2q
      @user-wc6su7lw2q 7 місяців тому +96

      The Greek Chad's came to help

    • @fifervonpiper6707
      @fifervonpiper6707 7 місяців тому +72

      It must be the Sacred Band of Thebes.

    • @fegemarsilang5746
      @fegemarsilang5746 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@fifervonpiper6707 maybe alexanders Hyspaspists or Phalangites

    • @caiocesar3084
      @caiocesar3084 3 місяці тому +8

      just like the norwegians and french at siege of reichstag

    • @diegoyqulki
      @diegoyqulki 2 місяці тому +4

      The True 300:

  • @jaredjosephsongheng372
    @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому +270

    Hitler: Surrender Now!
    Luxembourg for 5 years straight: Your Authority is not Recognized in Fort Kick*ss!

    • @Coecoo
      @Coecoo Місяць тому +1

      Now to figure out where they are getting all of their food and resources from...

  • @mrsokolov8954
    @mrsokolov8954 Рік тому +467

    Luxembourg: I didn't made a Maginot Line, I *AM* THE MAGINOT LINE.

    • @gerwaltspodnovigradu5508
      @gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 3 місяці тому +1

      If they were maginot linę they would've fallen in 0.001 seconds so one big cap

    • @jerryalbus1492
      @jerryalbus1492 2 місяці тому

      ​@@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 But Maginot didn't fall though. They were cut off from everything and mostly succumbed due to low morale. iirc didn't even take an assault on the damn thing for the french snowflakes to crumble inside.

    • @gerwaltspodnovigradu5508
      @gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 2 місяці тому +1

      @@jerryalbus1492 luxembourg here was encircled too, and thats my point, maginot have fallen very easily after getting encircled, luxembourg have stood its ground

    • @jerryalbus1492
      @jerryalbus1492 2 місяці тому

      @@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 i see. Though tbh the FRENCH fell, not the line/fortification itself. It felt more like the reverse of the warhammer meme "Cadia broke before the Guardsmen did"

  • @reckless20
    @reckless20 Рік тому +290

    Your troops digged down so well - that they've practically brought the whole country under the earth's crust. Sci-fi stuff from paradox.

    • @MistorAnimation-wq3yc
      @MistorAnimation-wq3yc Місяць тому +1

      На самом деле, в Люксембурге было очень много хороших крепостей. Поэтому все соседи хотели
      получить их себе.
      И в конце концов просто снесли их, с лозунгом "Да не достанься же ты никому! "

  • @definitelynotstalin4306
    @definitelynotstalin4306 Рік тому +4037

    I can only imagine what's going on in the Reichstag right now
    Adam Hilt: give me a status report on our invasion of France.
    Generic general: France has fallen, but one country stands defiant.
    Adam: really? Is it the Netherlands? Maybe Belgium?
    Generico: no, it's Luxembourg
    Downfall scene plays

    • @omeven5785
      @omeven5785 Рік тому +369

      asterix but it's in luxembourg

    • @foolishgrapefruit1099
      @foolishgrapefruit1099 Рік тому +62

      ​@@omeven5785 LMAO

    • @scezich6126
      @scezich6126 Рік тому

      We all know the real country that killed the 3rd riech was Luxembourg not the ussr

    • @Cheesburger1009
      @Cheesburger1009 Рік тому +92

      Señor Himmler

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому +50

      Read “Downfall scene plays” right as the main theme of Coconut Mall kicked in

  • @theinfinium3247
    @theinfinium3247 Рік тому +117

    An alternate universe version of tim curry: "Im going to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by fascism... Luxembourg"!

  • @KoishiVibin
    @KoishiVibin Рік тому +114

    Empires fall, kingdoms crumble, but apparently dutchies are forever.

  • @charakiga
    @charakiga Рік тому +98

    The allies troops in your territory really were like « thank god we’re safe ».
    You even annexed a bit of Germany.

  • @clorox2595
    @clorox2595 Рік тому +944

    What I really liked about this video is that you didn't beat the Germans. The outro was astonishing with the sense of despair as the axis conquered the old world and unlike other meme Luxembourg videos that other creators make that always ends with Luxembourg conquering the world, this video has an actual ending that feels a lot better. I give this video a like and a sub to your channel, looking forward too seeing more of your content.

    • @lordbelou7279
      @lordbelou7279 Рік тому +69

      Luxembourg, bastion of freedom in a world of hate.

    • @johnmurphy5689
      @johnmurphy5689 Рік тому +50

      @@lordbelou7279 Unfortunately Germany would later nuke the nation in 1947 and crush the Luxembourgish resistance :(

    • @sadpotatohours4846
      @sadpotatohours4846 Рік тому +53

      I actually really love this, the idea of having a small nation/city state stuck in the middle of a vastly more powerful empire but still standing defiantly. if nothing else, the people who still believe in good in that world will continue to fight on tooth and nail in the spirit of Luxembourg! the last free city of Europe!

    • @burntbread6575
      @burntbread6575 Рік тому +13

      All I thought about after reading this,was the Tau in the Warhammer 40k universe.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Рік тому

      E‎ ‎

  • @timemachine1773
    @timemachine1773 Рік тому +46

    Germany:Why won't you die!?
    Luxembourg: Defense son

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +15

      LAND FORTS SON! THEY HARDEN IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK!

    • @ARVN_Ranger
      @ARVN_Ranger Місяць тому +2

      ​@@halfpasteightYOU CANT INVADE ME,GERMANY

  • @IronClique
    @IronClique Рік тому +177

    "Dear beloved,
    The mighty walls of this place resist all we throw at it. The sky is choked with fortress bombers continuing to pound the lands, yet the foe remains steadfast. The land has turned to muck, the air filled with smoke, and the dead overflow the foxholes and trenches, the stench is unreal. It's a horrid place, not even the rats and strays remain in this hell. The artillery have been rolling non stop for days, the tanks and trucks are sinking in the grim. And this song the enemy is routinely playing over its sirens and radios, its constant and never ending, its picking away at our nerves. How can they have resisted for years, even after the whole of Europe fell? I hope one day I can return to you, my flower on a hill. Pray for me, and souls of this damned front.
    You're soldier."

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +17

      Man, you guys come up with the best short stories!

    • @bombercbc9431
      @bombercbc9431 2 місяці тому

      luxembourg literally turned into krieg

  • @vracknor
    @vracknor Рік тому +319

    Theres a pretty viable version of this strat were you go commoe for the manpower bonus and then just slowly push towards a port as you fortify all your holdings so the brits and americans can pour manpower into your horrifically fortified lands.

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +255

      Yeah, but that involves going commie which is automatically a no-go.

    • @coloradoing9172
      @coloradoing9172 Рік тому +187

      @@halfpasteight Based.

    • @Raven-yk7lg
      @Raven-yk7lg Рік тому +14

      @@halfpasteight Yeah! Always go fascist

    • @SidorovichGaming
      @SidorovichGaming 8 місяців тому +13

      @@Raven-yk7lg not necessarily, since democracy is based as well.

    • @Brent-jj6qi
      @Brent-jj6qi 8 місяців тому +3

      @@halfpasteightchad

  • @fireiron369
    @fireiron369 Рік тому +453

    Fun fact:
    When this game first came out it took the Allies until 44 to beat the Axis usually (just AI) now it takes until 53

    • @enzoleegwater3718
      @enzoleegwater3718 Рік тому +32

      Why won’t they fix it? Isn’t the game meant to be historically accurate?

    • @neoknight9180
      @neoknight9180 Рік тому +1

      @@enzoleegwater3718 because they doesn’t cater to the wehraboo fantasy that they make so much money off of

    • @t4stingo
      @t4stingo Рік тому +119

      @@enzoleegwater3718 AI is smarter than Hitler.

    • @manender1020
      @manender1020 Рік тому +1

      @@enzoleegwater3718 in HoI4 world Nazi never genocided Jews and USA never made a concentration camps for Japanese people wha

    • @Sebaleroma
      @Sebaleroma Рік тому +7

      for some reason my game always ends in 1944 italy being destroyed in africa and europe

  • @GwainSagaFanChannel
    @GwainSagaFanChannel Рік тому +224

    Its a fun multiplayer experience to play as lowlands and just go full on fortification to troll the germans

    • @SidorovichGaming
      @SidorovichGaming 8 місяців тому +16

      ...and the german player just goes full-on siege artillery, railway guns and heavy tanks and goes straight through level 10 forts like through butter

  • @pontus135
    @pontus135 Рік тому +476

    Problem is, if you only control one tile, even if you hold your capital, you get the encirclement debuff which means your troops become hella voulnerable. So you should always try to make a fallback line on Metz and Luxembourg if your actually going to do this. (For anyone that didn't know)

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 Рік тому +14

      you're*

    • @pontus135
      @pontus135 Рік тому +63

      @@NoNameAtAll2 me trying to find who asked

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 Рік тому +57

      @@pontus135 it was your english teacher. I was asked to take care of you and your bad grades.

    • @tolroud
      @tolroud Рік тому +7

      @@NoNameAtAll2 oh you mean "you're" teacher?

    • @adamcollins1551
      @adamcollins1551 Рік тому +50

      @@tolroud It would be "your" teacher.

  • @obi_wanshinobi
    @obi_wanshinobi Рік тому +106

    As someone who has never played HOI4 before, I’m just kinda like, “ah yes, the screen. It is doing things” for all the management stuff. But still funny how Luxembourg managed to hold back Germany.

    • @manender1020
      @manender1020 Рік тому +4

      He does some (probably generic, idk I never played Road to 56), then spams bunkers, then makes a good division template then makes some divisions with it

    • @obi_wanshinobi
      @obi_wanshinobi Рік тому +3

      @@manender1020 ah, so he did the Switzerland IRL strategy. Makes sense. (But fr, Switzerland built so many bunkers around wwII)

    • @NotASovietSpy1
      @NotASovietSpy1 6 місяців тому

      as a person who has played hoi4 i can conferm itsb the screen alright

    • @thisisaname5589
      @thisisaname5589 2 місяці тому

      @@obi_wanshinobi Yeah, with the construction he did, Luxembourg is basically a single giant bunker/AA emplacement.

  • @jachymdolejs5156
    @jachymdolejs5156 5 місяців тому +16

    "Luxembourg is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Luxembourgs still holds out against the invaders."

  • @bluebeastgamer7494
    @bluebeastgamer7494 Рік тому +578

    General: Sir the Soviets have fallen
    H1tler: Ok good now prepare for the invasion of British Isles
    General: Sir their is one small issue
    H1tler: What is it?
    General: My fürher........ My fürher Luxembourg still stands
    *ANGRY GERMAN RANTING NOISES STARTS COMING OUT FROM THE FÜRHER BUNKER*

    • @GMan-xv8ek
      @GMan-xv8ek Рік тому +13

      its called "führer" but great meme xD as a german i give you my approval for this meme

    • @user-zy8cy6hn6o
      @user-zy8cy6hn6o Рік тому +10

      The Soviet Union has fallen but they're still in the bunker because they like the acoustics

    • @unsrescyldas9745
      @unsrescyldas9745 Рік тому +1

      @@GMan-xv8ek Fuerher means for lord tbh. actually nah Herr is lord, Her is more like a shortening of Hier (Here) so Forhere/herefor.

    • @manender1020
      @manender1020 Рік тому +4

      @@user-zy8cy6hn6o they are scared of Luxembourgish Nuclear Program

    • @FN-ib8wd
      @FN-ib8wd 3 місяці тому

      @@unsrescyldas9745 ??

  • @listenherejack
    @listenherejack Рік тому +57

    "It was said that the Moselle river ran red with the blood of German troops for years; the land appeared snow covered in summer, but it was only the dry bones of the millions of skeletons that blanketed the landscape around the Duchy.
    Jericho may have fallen to the trumpets of God; but even He might be repelled by Luxembourg."

    • @samp2651
      @samp2651 3 місяці тому

      Nope cringe bs

    • @attackmaster519
      @attackmaster519 Місяць тому +1

      @@samp2651 Found a German survivor of the Luxembourg front

  • @An_Entire_Spinell
    @An_Entire_Spinell Рік тому +208

    The mighty fortresses of Luxembourg can't be beat by the tanks of the Germans.

  • @sparx0s
    @sparx0s Рік тому +44

    2:27 Love the Belgium-Luxembourg orb so much

    • @sputniki6465
      @sputniki6465 Рік тому +11

      that province of Belgium, the "Province de Luxembourg" was luxembourgish territory that they just took and incorporated it while literally calling it province of Luxembourg, bastards.

  • @giovanino5173
    @giovanino5173 Рік тому +238

    we need part 2, good video

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +75

      Not really much I can do for a Pt. 2, Luxembourg can't really expand from here or defeat Germany on its own, and once Germany gets nukes it's all over. Luxembourg can't hold out forever without Allied support.
      I might do a remake, tho.

    • @giovanino5173
      @giovanino5173 Рік тому +21

      @@halfpasteight ok, maybe do the remake with some allied support or stronger allies

    • @inzyniertv9305
      @inzyniertv9305 Рік тому +5

      @@giovanino5173 This sounds like fun

    • @bluebeastgamer7494
      @bluebeastgamer7494 Рік тому +7

      @@halfpasteight do Luxembourg form Benelux and then attack the Germans

    • @humanperson3365
      @humanperson3365 Рік тому

      @@halfpasteight what mod did you use?😊

  • @bartekkrzysik7730
    @bartekkrzysik7730 Рік тому +35

    “The year is 50 B.C.(1942 A.D.) Gaul(France) is entirely occupied by the Romans(Germans). Well not entirely! One small village(Luxembourg) of indomitable Gauls(Luxembourgers) still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman(Germans) legionaries(divisions) who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium…”(I don`t really know when they are)

  • @goji3908
    @goji3908 Рік тому +38

    Luxembourg has become the Maginot Line

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +11

      A better Maginot than Maginot.
      (Jk, the Maginot Line did its job as intended and successfully prevented an invasion through Alsace-Lorraine and diverted German forces through the Low Countries, the failure was on the Franco-Belgian part by refusing to countenance an invasion through the Ardennes and by not creating adequate reconnaissance and communications infrastructure for their forces)

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 8 місяців тому

      ​@@halfpasteight
      Well more so Belgium's Fault than France.
      A few days before they got invaded.
      Belgium kicked out all the French Elite defenders that were holding Eben Emael and the border with Germany.
      Although France probably would have still fallen.
      It wouldn't have fallen that quick.

  • @will_adamborn
    @will_adamborn Рік тому +147

    Respect for having the willpower to only have 11 games on Steam

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +72

      I'm afraid I don't deserve it, I only have eleven games *installed*.
      I have over 400 in my library, excluding DLC.

    • @will_adamborn
      @will_adamborn Рік тому +29

      @@halfpasteight AHHHHH

  • @brokenordinance
    @brokenordinance 4 місяці тому +12

    Those allied divisions finding refuge in fort Luxembourg after the fall of France is amazing.

  • @Dylyinyang
    @Dylyinyang Рік тому +29

    the funny thing is that both Luxembourg and the Belgian region "Luxembourg" didn't fall

  • @jordanasparadoxproductions8401
    @jordanasparadoxproductions8401 Рік тому +67

    Bro really did the 30 minutes of hel as Luxemburg
    Anyway good video

  • @Finn_7117
    @Finn_7117 Рік тому +33

    I love playing as a small country and becoming a bunker

  • @swagbelly7740
    @swagbelly7740 Рік тому +137

    i though u would casually conquer all lands germans got BCS they killed all their units , that would've been epic

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +60

      Unfortunately the AI is not *quite* so stupid as to continue to ram themselves into Level 10 forts, so I can't just bleed them of manpower.
      Tragic.

    • @ABPHistory
      @ABPHistory Рік тому +12

      @@halfpasteight i think having a max of level 5-6 forts would still encourage them

    • @swagbelly7740
      @swagbelly7740 Рік тому +15

      @@halfpasteight there is a strat as poland whrere u def 3-5 tiles where u have main units in 2-4 and when german enter ur 5 tile u just crush them bcs they have no organization when they do it, and u can make 30 minutes of hell with that achivement, hard strat but its really funny to see how germans literally have 4-6 mill losses after that

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому

      @@swagbelly7740
      That's the New 30 minutes of Hel Strat for Poland

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому

      ​@@swagbelly7740
      The Krakow Donut

  • @RyGuyMaster
    @RyGuyMaster 4 місяці тому +9

    "Surrender! You're surrounded!"
    "All I'm surrounded by is dead men."

  • @Peruun
    @Peruun Рік тому +34

    As in some movie series one village still aint conquered

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +21

      The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium...

    • @abercrombieblovs2042
      @abercrombieblovs2042 Рік тому +4

      @@halfpasteight Ah, a fellow Asterix enjoyer :D

  • @redwolfgamevideo
    @redwolfgamevideo Рік тому +28

    It’s like the Matrix in Europe, one free city left in a world dominated by the machines....

  • @ArtypNk
    @ArtypNk Рік тому +11

    Hitler in angry german: I am in charge!!!
    Luxembourg in perfect Bane: Do you feel in charge?

  • @flyingsquirrell6953
    @flyingsquirrell6953 Рік тому +14

    The question is not do we have enough men.
    The question is do we have enough bullets.

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +8

      The Luxembourgish mines run deep, and the factories run on.
      There will be bullets aplenty for the wars to come.

    • @juanon_industries7256
      @juanon_industries7256 Рік тому +4

      @@halfpasteight we make bullets out of our enemy shooted bullets🙃

  • @gifigi600
    @gifigi600 Рік тому +16

    Imagine that. Just imagine Luxembourg holding but not the Soviets

  • @mr.exodark9042
    @mr.exodark9042 Рік тому +25

    The legend says The luxemburg is holding to this day

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +28

      It is 2340, and the Großdeutsches Reich dominates the entire galaxy.
      Except for a single tiny province a few hundred miles away from its capital Germania, that still stubbornly holds out.

    • @shahedamere6976
      @shahedamere6976 Рік тому +12

      @@halfpasteight “they call themselves,the free nation of Luxembourg,holding out as a beacon of freedom,before the republic fell to the Germans,they received a radio message from the Luxembourgeois,the message was received as the consul declared no surrrender,the message read;first time?;”

    • @shahedamere6976
      @shahedamere6976 Рік тому +4

      @@halfpasteight casualties have risen for Germany but after the Flanders offensive,Luxembourg advanced to the now long gone city of Brussels and prepared to attack Germania.

    • @shahedamere6976
      @shahedamere6976 Рік тому +4

      After the decisive battle of the Netherlands,Luxembourg against all odds beat the luftwaffe and pushed to the grandest city,Germania the city was larger than the duchy of Luxembourg and yet after a gruelling siege of 5 months Luxembourg took it.the aliens began to fight back on different planets but on earth,Luxembourg received a transmission from a human nation,confused,they looked at who sent it,it was the grand empire of Bhutan and the holy realm of the Vatican,which had resisted the Nazis as-well.12 years after the fall of Germania,the Nazis surrendered in the city of ULM .the world was free once more

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому +2

      ​@@shahedamere6976 Wait are you telling me Tannu Tuva got defeated!?
      There's no f*cking way

  • @lerbronk
    @lerbronk Рік тому +20

    french resistance is really strong here

    • @sumretard
      @sumretard Рік тому

      Nah, its more like the Polish Ghettos

  • @therealcallmehans
    @therealcallmehans Місяць тому +2

    "The New Order; Bastion of Democracy."

  • @Calbeck
    @Calbeck 2 місяці тому +2

    literally the reason Luxembourg exists
    the most-fortified chunk of Europe back in the day
    to the point both French and Germans said "maybe we should just go around" on the regular

  • @shkila_s_chitami
    @shkila_s_chitami 5 місяців тому +3

    imagine a history lesson in this universe
    -Children, put down the date, October 7th, 1972.
    -Today we are learning about luxembourg which held its border for 33 years and ongoing....

  • @kommado7677
    @kommado7677 Рік тому +23

    Your ability to not move the map around while waiting so that the time-lapse doesn't look awful is truly impressive

  • @viita796
    @viita796 Рік тому +24

    Now... This is the kind of content I want to see more.

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +1

      Well, unfortunately I'm probably not going to make a lot more of it. At least, not on that regular of a basis.
      I have like 2k hours in HoI. I've been playing it for the last four years. And I am completely burned out and entirely uninspired. This video was supposed to be a one-off meme that I threw together to get some practice editing three months ago, that only just now blew up completely out of nowhere. Frankly, I don't much like it myself.
      You're welcome to check out some of the other, more recent content on my channel as it's more typical of the kind of stuff I actually enjoy making. And while I'm definitely still trying to find my niche on this platform and I welcome every bit of feedback I can get...frankly, this video just isn't what I'm interested in making.
      Thanks for watching, tho.

    • @viita796
      @viita796 Рік тому +1

      ​@@halfpasteight I checked out your other content as well and it's really entertaining, especially the wt ones. Keep up the good work 👍

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +1

      @@viita796 Thanks mate!

  • @spendingpine4381
    @spendingpine4381 7 місяців тому +4

    imagine the history books saying about this stand 💀
    IMAGINE THE REICH EXPLAINING THIS IN HIS HISTORY BOOKS 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

    • @Lavortriziska
      @Lavortriziska 13 днів тому +2

      "All of Europe fell, but one, one remained. It was, Luxembourg. Even after a thousand bombs fell on it, it stood up. Even after a million men were dead, it was alive, looking through the smog and glaring til everything bowed down to it."
      ~ Reich history books

    • @spendingpine4381
      @spendingpine4381 13 днів тому +2

      @@Lavortriziska nahw, they'd would just delete this from history, if they could invade Luxembourg XD

    • @Lavortriziska
      @Lavortriziska 12 днів тому +1

      @@spendingpine4381 i forgot to mention that the Reich would also be a puppet state of Luxembourg

  • @johnuthus
    @johnuthus Рік тому +8

    also if lux has a railway gun, it would add more defesne buffs

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +4

      Yeah, I might pick up NSB at some point and do a remake of this.

  • @MsPysoul
    @MsPysoul Рік тому +4

    Doesnt matter if the population dies of starvation. The Luxembourg holds.

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +2

      CORPSE STARCH CORPSE STARCH CORPSE STARCH CORPSE STARCH

  • @novacentorium4943
    @novacentorium4943 Рік тому +46

    reminds me of when I played the Netherlands going fascist but then got declared war on by Napoleonic France and was defending well until I got naval invaded 💀💀 and then I held out in like three tiles including Amsterdam until I flipped and got Germany to kill France for me

  • @marduk1734
    @marduk1734 Рік тому +4

    Random allied general: but that's impossible.
    Raymond Beringer: no, it's necessary.

  • @robfus
    @robfus Рік тому +3

    to make a reference "Julius Cesar conquere the Gauls...all of them? not exactly, there is a little village that still oppose him a fiercy resistance"

  • @3b106
    @3b106 Рік тому +4

    YOU'VE JUST GOT LUXEMBURG MALLED!

  • @randomlyentertaining8287
    @randomlyentertaining8287 Рік тому +16

    I did this with a single modern tank division I got from CC'ing all the research. Germans didn't even try to invade, just surrounded me and sat there lol

  • @Kirby-sf2dl
    @Kirby-sf2dl Рік тому +3

    Luxembourg be like: "I WILL SURVIVE" 🎵🎵

  • @kristianstrm2375
    @kristianstrm2375 8 місяців тому +2

    Random Norwegian general: Nice forts you've built, I think I'll take command of the battle now.

  • @mobgabriel1767
    @mobgabriel1767 Рік тому +6

    luxembourg:standing here i realize

  • @arealitybender
    @arealitybender Рік тому +12

    0:02 Ah, judging from the steam library alone, I have discerned one trait of this individual…
    They’re a masochist

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +1

      It gets so much worse. I have so many more games...

  • @korhol2065
    @korhol2065 Рік тому +5

    Now I know why most multiplayer sessions I see always have a limit on forts that can be built

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +2

      It gets pretty wild after a while, tho a competent player should be able to break it with enough equipment.

  • @piercebunge4297
    @piercebunge4297 Рік тому +10

    It would be impossible to capitulate the Soviet Union without capitulation Luxembourg first

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Рік тому

      Yeah.
      I thought the Germans would be too scared to invade the Soviets because Luxembourg was still alive

  • @user-lz7ut7lh3s
    @user-lz7ut7lh3s 2 місяці тому +2

    Thousands of feet march to the beat
    It's an army on the march
    Long way from home
    Paying the price in young men's lives
    Thousands of feet march to the beat
    It's an army in despair
    Knee-deep in mud
    Stuck in the trench with no way out
    Young men are dying
    They pay the price
    Oh how they suffer
    So tell me what's the price of a mile?

  • @unitedfloridamapper7669
    @unitedfloridamapper7669 Рік тому +6

    This is basically what if the Maginot Line covered Luxembourg too.

  • @MazaAzi
    @MazaAzi Рік тому +5

    Luxembourg survives WW2:
    Pros:
    *Luxembourg survives WW2*
    *USSR falls*
    Cons:
    *USSR falls*
    *TNO becomes reality...kind of*

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +3

      I dunno, "USSR falls" sounds like a solid "pro". Not a fan of what it falls to tho.

    • @MazaAzi
      @MazaAzi Рік тому

      @@halfpasteight
      Best case scenario, USA has no counter weight,
      Worst case scenario, Nazi Germany has no counter weight.
      Both scenarios are shit for the world with one just being significantly worse than everything else in between.

  • @playdeat3435
    @playdeat3435 Місяць тому +1

    The fortion of Democracy:
    LUXEMBOURG

  • @ultraflopp2802
    @ultraflopp2802 7 місяців тому +1

    Defcon? Oh! You’re a man of a culture!

  • @theweirdclasher3955
    @theweirdclasher3955 Рік тому +5

    Luxembourg roleplaying as the 101st airborne

  • @Otto_Von_Itter9000
    @Otto_Von_Itter9000 Рік тому +13

    I thought that forts over level 7 were useless due to the AI never attacking such high level forts, someone lied to me, someone on UA-cam 😡

  • @mmmxp
    @mmmxp Рік тому +23

    3:10 Мне нравится, как в этом моменте играет музыка из TNO

  • @chaosisthebestsauce
    @chaosisthebestsauce Рік тому +6

    would love to see you then defeat the axis now cause that would be a hell of a triumph an thing to see

  • @El_Solido-nj3qh
    @El_Solido-nj3qh Рік тому +4

    That's what I'd call a little trolling indeed

  • @crazyhayden
    @crazyhayden Рік тому +10

    bros game list is cultured

  • @reckless20
    @reckless20 Рік тому +4

    Literally Asterix & Obelix lore reborn 😂

  • @aresxx2217
    @aresxx2217 Рік тому +3

    Love the TNO reference with the Burgundian Lullaby

  • @pecetabla8042
    @pecetabla8042 Рік тому +15

    one time i watched my friend playing HoI4, and on the soviet front he just encircled like 87 soviet division (mostly motorized infantry) with like 10 casual infantry division and with 1 SS panzer division too, meanwhile the yanks and brits were at Berlin, so he basically made a bloodshed at his final moments, while he gave the defense of Berlin to Steiner (with his last 10 panzer division he just tried to counter-attack the western allies, but the whole army was from panzer IIIs and short barrel panzer IVs, and he had like 2-3 tiger on every division, his army was a bigger mindf@ck than the actual german army back then)

    • @survivalist2607
      @survivalist2607 4 місяці тому

      Bro really decided he hates the commies more.
      Going down without a fight? more like going down with the reds.

  • @reaverfang377
    @reaverfang377 Рік тому +7

    WW2 Nazi Victory, but Luembourg's power level is unleashed to its max potential resulting in the most fantastic nazi stomping action that even Wolfenstein could be proud.

  • @eli-mi3mh
    @eli-mi3mh Рік тому +7

    Luxembourg means little fortress

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +3

      So it does! Comes from the medieval Lucilinburhuc Castle, allegedly constructed on a Roman fortification of the same name.
      Allegedly the modern "Lëtzebuerg", and thus the Anglicized "Luxembourg", come from "Letze" meaning "fortification"; however I can find no instance of this definition being used for this word and "letze" in German actually means "last".

  • @CoffeeSuccubus
    @CoffeeSuccubus Рік тому +3

    The last bastion of the HRE

  • @miracleCS2
    @miracleCS2 Рік тому +5

    USSR thought that he was most strong, but he didnt know about Lux. USSR was absolutely outplayed.

  • @snoopdoge4462
    @snoopdoge4462 8 місяців тому +1

    And the rockets red glare,
    The bombs bursting in air,
    Gave proof through the night,
    That our flag was still there.

  • @greensike8516
    @greensike8516 Рік тому +4

    the Maginot Dot

  • @claudiospeed
    @claudiospeed 4 місяці тому +2

    Now I'd say its even easier since with the Better laws mod you can spend 50pp to get city state which greatly boosts industry and manpower capabilities.

  • @TaitLawrence-xl2xb
    @TaitLawrence-xl2xb Рік тому +3

    I always love just maxing out everything in Luxembourg then destroying the world

  • @stateofflorida5082
    @stateofflorida5082 Рік тому +4

    *CADIA STANDS!*

  • @najerrys5061
    @najerrys5061 Рік тому +4

    as a luxembourgian, i agree

  • @HyruleSwordsman94
    @HyruleSwordsman94 Рік тому +4

    Luxembourg looking at the Maginot Line:
    PATHETIC

  • @Kiwoeoe
    @Kiwoeoe Рік тому +15

    i mean this is a perfect example of whats wrong with the game calculating battles

    • @halfpasteight
      @halfpasteight  Рік тому +6

      Yeah, you can stack bonuses to an utterly ridiculous degree.

    • @Kiwoeoe
      @Kiwoeoe Рік тому +1

      @@halfpasteight yeah

  • @supersoldiergaming4464
    @supersoldiergaming4464 Рік тому +4

    With this video
    I now know why fortress exists in hoi4.

  • @bread3039
    @bread3039 Місяць тому +1

    Bro is playing as the Maginot Line.

  • @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja
    @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 3 місяці тому +1

    I just got the most briliant of ideas: Create a multiplayer game. Give Germany all the buffs you can. One plays Luxembourg, another plays Albania.

  • @TheTheLegendOfSpyro
    @TheTheLegendOfSpyro 21 день тому

    I love how if you hold out long enough that tiny bit of belgium too holds out for ages

  • @Anonymous-he6gz
    @Anonymous-he6gz Рік тому +1

    Good content, keep it up 👌

  • @alexsandresixarulize8616
    @alexsandresixarulize8616 Рік тому +2

    Country broke before the guard did

  • @Theover4000
    @Theover4000 8 місяців тому

    I like how even with 1 million enemy casualties you still have 0% war participation

  • @abigail4839
    @abigail4839 2 місяці тому +1

    This whole situation reminded me of an old cartoon) Asterix and Obelix called Asterix and Obelix where the Romans also could not take one small village of Gauls!))