I think that's the point - to streamline mechanics so that HOI appeals to a larger player base. HOI3 had a learning curve for even myself, and I've been playing HOI since the original; however, at the same time, the sheer depth means HOI3 will probably remain my favorite HOI. I'm already excited for HOI5, since it will likely add more depth after HOI4.
30 mins ago "Wow, Marb playing HoI4! This gonna be good!" a minute ago "Damn! that was a good episode, but it was the first and... wait... EPISODE 2 OUT!"
If you can deny Germany air superiority it'll be awsome. If it's historically accurate, right now your pilots must have lots of training, but crappy equipment.
From what i noticed, there are ONLY two German airfields in close proximity to Polish borders, one is in Breslau area and second around Konighsberg, so chances to even the field with Luftwaffe (assuming that AI won't drop on you couple thousand planes (i still find numbers of planes available for air wing ridiculous since (assuming you are production powerhouse) in 1939 you can have on your airfields more fighters than Germany, France and Britain together have in real life beginning of the war) and simply wipe out not only your air force but ground troops as well are possible IF you soon enough start to produce much better than P 11 fighters, like Jastrząb ( aka Falcon)...
I'm 4 years too late but still... maybe it will help the others. If I remember correctly (It was ages from my last time playing the game) combat width above 40 means you can't fit two divisions on the front line (normal maximum battlefield). That means you will have to deal with huge flanking bonus at the standard situation. The best option is to keep 20 or 40 width divistion for thebest fitting.
Really enjoying this series so far, I had no idea Poland was such an interesting country to play in HOI IV. I think the Germans are gonna have a bit of a shock when they start the war against you, Although I may have been tempted to put in some Anti-Air Batteries into my infantry divisions because they are going to be using a lot of air assets, and you have nothing to counter that.
As someone new to this genre of games,is it a good idea to buy this game ? It looks really good and I want to try it but not sure a noob like me can play it lol.
Marbozir Air does matter a lot if they use strategic bombers, but I don't think the German AI tends to use them. I've already seen other Let's Plays where strategic bombers wrecked their civilian and military factories.
+Trifler500 Poland doesn't have the industrial power of majors though, you have to make choices what to focus on and what to cut. And air is what I cut in the first 2-3 years
31:52 Both events popping up in the same instant, wow. Polished game is polished (-pun-). And, of course, the multi-choice event has negatives on all options. Marbo, wrong pick. That's a permanent loss of unity; middle option is double the loss, but only for a year.
should you not have placed the civlilian factories or military factories in more of a defensive place because i am prety sure if that province is captured the factories will not work. i am not a genius but thas logical
dude. you should upload more of the episodes the series more quickly. it will help you with search optimization as this is a new game and many people will be lookin for its lp and you will lose out on them when other channels give more content on it
This is something that has always kinda surprised me about Marbs. He likes consistency and control. Just as an example, both Marbs and Quill started posting HoI4 about 18 hours ago, yet Quill has already uploaded 10 videos of his LP. It is more or less the same every time a new game comes out and while, in my case, I seldom watch any of Quill's videos, it is obvious his strat of capitalizing on the first days of a release work quite well for him. Marbs likes to spread it out more. For example, Quill's Stellaris LP has 32 videos, compared to 30 by Marbs. But I remember Quill released a truckload on the first few days, as he does. Anyway, I agree that at least for the first few days Marbs could crank the uploads a bit. Specially if he likes the game cause, it's not like he'll run out of content.
+phryxolydian yeah exactly. he can do a second run or something like that later where he can spread out the video, just like quill does. but right now, he will be bleeding watch count and potential subs who were looking for lp content
I just don't like to spam people with too many videos of the same thing in a short time period. The few times I did in the past, a lot of people complained they can't keep up, which is understandable. I don't want to piss people off just for the sake of getting more views.
+Marbozir but many people like binge watching. why do you think Netflix shows offer it as an option? anyway, you can check to see your sub gain and view counts for binge type videos vs the present model and you can objectively see that this is better. anyway, your call
It's a very tough call. I actually ramped up my upload rate a bit back in April (tried up to 5 videos a day there), especially in the first half of April - and in terms of subscriber change, it was my worst month in over 3 years. No joke - in absolute numbers, it was the worst month since April 2013, and as a percentage of total, it was the worst month in the entire 5 year history of my channel (+0.80% change total in all of April 2016). I'm not gonna lie, it really made me think very hard about that approach. It's one of these things I'm always torn about.
They are probably using old names for the regions. When Marb was hovering over the USSR, Donetsk was called Stalino, which is exactly what my city was called during WW2. Wikipedia also says, that during WW2 Gdansk was called Danzig.
Sooo Poland go the same way as Yugoslavia? Not a bad idea Marbozir:) Poland can had a same ideology as USSR yet to be independece for them and also securing our eastern flank we you go to war.
Poland fought pretty valiantly against the Nazis, even if the war was short. Germans actually lost 25% of their air force (of those engaged of course) during that war. Something Polish people should be proud of. You killed as much of those bastards as you could.
If I were I'd invaded Lithuania, joined the Fascist alliance (to facilitate the invasion of the Balkans), gave Danzig to Hitler in exchange for Slovakia and then stirred up enough trouble to capture the Carpathia mountain area of Romania and then flooded spies into both Germany and Soviet Union so as to acquire enough time to massively re-arm. That said Marbozier why didn't you concentrate on building fighter planes knowing that in 1939 aerial superiority is one reasons why the Germans were able to blitkrieg in the first place.
Preparing for war against germany , with their Tanks and you have not researched anti tank guns ???? Or does this game ignore the unit types for blunt number min maxing and thus loose any realism ????
It's not true. After war we were a communist country but we stars to fighting with them after some year. Lots of people lose their lives in those times
Exercising for army experience consumes infantry equipment. Attrition in this context doesn't mean you lose manpower, it means you have a % chance to lose equipment (you can't actually lose troops from exercising). What actually happened was manpower being used to fill all the extra infantry battalions I added to all my divisions.
OMG! In late 1930's there was none as ANTI-COMUNIST country as Poland. In general Poland is CRAZY anti-communist even now. "we will go communist." This sounds REVOLTING! The idea is also revolting! but these are nice videos:) pleasure to watch.
This was mostly to: 1. Polish-Bolshevik war of 1919-1921. and 2.there was no ground in POland for communist ideas: little factories and industralization, huge aristocratic heritage, huge attachment to catholic values, spike of nationalism, association of communist-bolshevik-russian that is still very alive in PL.
Actually, I shouldn't need it. There's a tech after Infantry Weapons II - called Infantry Anti-Tank. It gives all infantry +25% hard attack and +100% piercing (insanely good against tanks). It's a 1942 tech, so it'll have a significant ahead of time penalty, however... I can still get a 50% research bonus for it from the focus tree (the one I'm about to get from standardization of equipment), which will reduce the time to research it from 600+ days to 300+ days. That's my plan currently.
hehe yeah I get that. It's just funny that Poland conspicuously begins to reinforce their border way before Hitler invades Czechoslovakia or something. But if the game is historically accurate, then Germany should favor a large number of tanks and air support. Pre-empting CZ to shorten the Polish front is an interesting twist.
Exercising DOES NOT use manpower, it uses infantry equipment - I explained this in the first episode (don't you think it would be really stupid if hundreds of thousands of troops died from military exercise?). Adding multiple new infantry battalions to every single division however, does use manpower. Seriously, please stop repeating this comment, it's 100% false.
I literally just said it in my comment. I modified my division template (using army experience - you can see me do it in part 1 and then again in part 2 as I get army exp required to do it) and increased it from the initial 9 battalions to 25 (which is the maximum allowed division size not counting support battalions). One infantry battalion requires 1000 manpower, one artillery battalion requires 500 manpower. I added a total of 6 infantry and 10 artillery battalions compared to what the game starts with. This means each division of that type that I already had (30+), required additional 11,000 manpower and reinforcing to full strength is not instant.
"today we are gonna do some militar trainer boys. since we don't have enough troops to form 2 armies, you civilians will be one army, and we professional soldiers will be the other one. *We'll use live ammo and artillery*"
Alternate History Poland's motto: Better Red than Dead
sooo true
I literally just finished watching episode 1. I genuinely can't wait to see how this run will end, so, best of luck to you!
Thanks! I can't wait myself. ;)
same here, just watching Marbozirs letsplay for maximum entertainment, powodzenia życzę, w grę nie zagram, ale kupię na 100% aby wesprzeć producenta.
Ja też, ale ze względu na to, że jest zajebista! Oczywiście dla mnie :)
I am a simple Pole - I see a Poland gameplay, I upvote
This is’nt Reddit.
You know what, my Polish neighbour? SUBSCRIBED!
I'm impressed on how easy it seems to get into this game HoI 3 overwhelmed me when I saw it.
Yeah, it's definitely much easier to get into than HoI4. And it's a lot of fun too.
I think that's the point - to streamline mechanics so that HOI appeals to a larger player base. HOI3 had a learning curve for even myself, and I've been playing HOI since the original; however, at the same time, the sheer depth means HOI3 will probably remain my favorite HOI. I'm already excited for HOI5, since it will likely add more depth after HOI4.
I remember playing HoI1. I spent 3 days working through the manual and the tutorials.
Alblaka First few hours of HOI 1 was hilarious. Nothing better than losing to Czechoslovakia as Germany.
IMO Hoi3 isn’t that much more deep than HOI4, the HOI3 Interface and overall look is just much clunkier and less streamlined.
Dzień dobry pierwszy sekretarzu Marbozir.
Brzmi nie najgorzej :)
30 mins ago "Wow, Marb playing HoI4! This gonna be good!"
a minute ago "Damn! that was a good episode, but it was the first and... wait... EPISODE 2 OUT!"
ikr
Also don't you want some Anti Air if you are not going to build fighters
If you can deny Germany air superiority it'll be awsome. If it's historically accurate, right now your pilots must have lots of training, but crappy equipment.
or no equipment, since he isnt building planes.
From what i noticed, there are ONLY two German airfields in close proximity to Polish borders, one is in Breslau area and second around Konighsberg, so chances to even the field with Luftwaffe (assuming that AI won't drop on you couple thousand planes (i still find numbers of planes available for air wing ridiculous since (assuming you are production powerhouse) in 1939 you can have on your airfields more fighters than Germany, France and Britain together have in real life beginning of the war) and simply wipe out not only your air force but ground troops as well are possible IF you soon enough start to produce much better than P 11 fighters, like Jastrząb ( aka Falcon)...
This is the first series I started to watch from you. so hooked on this game you got me as a new sub!!
32:39 Noooo! Who is that guy!? Ignacy looked so cool! :/
searched for HOI4 gameplay to enjoy at breakfast
subscribed
this is some good content
I recently found your channel and I realy like it. Glat to see someone knowing what hes doing with the strategy games not like some youtubers.
Man, those are some heavy and well equiped divisions.
Ideal combat width is 5-10-20 fyi.That way you can fit enough divisions on the front line.
I'm 4 years too late but still... maybe it will help the others. If I remember correctly (It was ages from my last time playing the game) combat width above 40 means you can't fit two divisions on the front line (normal maximum battlefield). That means you will have to deal with huge flanking bonus at the standard situation. The best option is to keep 20 or 40 width divistion for thebest fitting.
Marbozir is the only Let's Player I know that doesn't make a bunch of snarky political jokes about Poland going Communist. :D
Piłsudski is rolling over in his grave, hańba Xd
Loving this LP right now. Can't wait for the next episode. =)
In Soviet Poland, Space into you.
Poland was in space.
Lol, you are trying to get the Dolfy Hitter to backstab Joey Stealin faster than irl :p
Hard to make him get backstabbed when they haven't made their non-aggression pact yet...
I know I am a bit late with this question .. but your infantry divisions have no anti-tank bonuses.. are you not worried about Axis armor ?
Loving the game soooo much
Keep up the good work !!!!
Nice. This game is looking so good!
So pumped for this LP! Please take the Baltic's
Is there an 'Invest in Eastern Poland' focus? :)
Really enjoying this series so far, I had no idea Poland was such an interesting country to play in HOI IV. I think the Germans are gonna have a bit of a shock when they start the war against you, Although I may have been tempted to put in some Anti-Air Batteries into my infantry divisions because they are going to be using a lot of air assets, and you have nothing to counter that.
I was looking for Poland Lets play!
Does the game seem a bit sluggish to anyone else? As in Marbz mouse hangs up a bit. Loving the series btw!
Did I miss it ? What about anti air ??
Welcome to the party, Comrade Marbozir!
As someone new to this genre of games,is it a good idea to buy this game ? It looks really good and I want to try it but not sure a noob like me can play it lol.
What about researching anti-tank artillery?
How are you going to fight Germany's tanks with no hard attack? Or hold off bombers without AA?
+Trifler500 There's a tech that gives all infantry +25% hard attack and +100% piercing. And air doesn't matter nearly as much in HoI4
Marbozir
Air does matter a lot if they use strategic bombers, but I don't think the German AI tends to use them. I've already seen other Let's Plays where strategic bombers wrecked their civilian and military factories.
+Trifler500 Poland doesn't have the industrial power of majors though, you have to make choices what to focus on and what to cut. And air is what I cut in the first 2-3 years
Marbozir
All right but I was mostly talking about how you set up your division. When I said AA I wasn't talking about planes at all.
+Trifler500 AA battalions won't do anything against strategic bombers though.
13:59 Argentina !!! :D
Good series.
I have never played this game, but would offering military access to the USSR be a good idea in your current situation?
When marbozir says slots it sounds like sluts. I'll never stop giggling.
520 soft attack jesus christ those divisions are disgusting.
pls uploud faster moreeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need more video's its so goooooooooooooooooood nice vid marbs ;)
31:52 Both events popping up in the same instant, wow. Polished game is polished (-pun-). And, of course, the multi-choice event has negatives on all options. Marbo, wrong pick. That's a permanent loss of unity; middle option is double the loss, but only for a year.
should you not have placed the civlilian factories or military factories in more of a defensive place because i am prety sure if that province is captured the factories will not work. i am not a genius but thas logical
1:30 WHAT?! MY HOMELAND!!!
Why not consider playing Ethiopia next?
I really wanna get this game, but it looks so overwhelming
nah it's actually pretty easy to get into, took me just about 2 hours to learn all the mechanics
dude. you should upload more of the episodes the series more quickly. it will help you with search optimization as this is a new game and many people will be lookin for its lp and you will lose out on them when other channels give more content on it
This is something that has always kinda surprised me about Marbs. He likes consistency and control. Just as an example, both Marbs and Quill started posting HoI4 about 18 hours ago, yet Quill has already uploaded 10 videos of his LP. It is more or less the same every time a new game comes out and while, in my case, I seldom watch any of Quill's videos, it is obvious his strat of capitalizing on the first days of a release work quite well for him. Marbs likes to spread it out more. For example, Quill's Stellaris LP has 32 videos, compared to 30 by Marbs. But I remember Quill released a truckload on the first few days, as he does. Anyway, I agree that at least for the first few days Marbs could crank the uploads a bit. Specially if he likes the game cause, it's not like he'll run out of content.
+phryxolydian yeah exactly. he can do a second run or something like that later where he can spread out the video, just like quill does. but right now, he will be bleeding watch count and potential subs who were looking for lp content
I just don't like to spam people with too many videos of the same thing in a short time period. The few times I did in the past, a lot of people complained they can't keep up, which is understandable. I don't want to piss people off just for the sake of getting more views.
+Marbozir but many people like binge watching. why do you think Netflix shows offer it as an option? anyway, you can check to see your sub gain and view counts for binge type videos vs the present model and you can objectively see that this is better.
anyway, your call
It's a very tough call. I actually ramped up my upload rate a bit back in April (tried up to 5 videos a day there), especially in the first half of April - and in terms of subscriber change, it was my worst month in over 3 years. No joke - in absolute numbers, it was the worst month since April 2013, and as a percentage of total, it was the worst month in the entire 5 year history of my channel (+0.80% change total in all of April 2016). I'm not gonna lie, it really made me think very hard about that approach. It's one of these things I'm always torn about.
why such huge divisions? the frontline will be huge and yo will have less divisions in total, I prefer 3x(3inf +1art) for 22-24 width
"I can't afford to be at war when the war begins."
Marbozir, 2016
*1938
Is it just me or does the Czechoslovakian leader look like Kevin spacey?
Białystok, Lwów, Warszawa and... Danzig? Paradox pls, its Gdańsk...
They are probably using old names for the regions. When Marb was hovering over the USSR, Donetsk was called Stalino, which is exactly what my city was called during WW2. Wikipedia also says, that during WW2 Gdansk was called Danzig.
I have a different focus tree why?
Stalin likes this video, but he won’t give the official seal from secretariat of Stalin approval control unless you cede eastern Poland Blyad.
No engineers?
Just out of curiosity, why do you pronounce Warsaw like English speakers? Isn't that incorrect?
Where in Poland are you from? You sound Czech :)
first time i have heard your voice i thought u are spanish because u are talking so fast xD on the beginnig
He is Polish.
+Kyle Liu really??????!
Was kinda hoping you would make your own faction, but I understand why you want to go Communist. Anyways, really enjoying the series!
Sooo Poland go the same way as Yugoslavia? Not a bad idea Marbozir:) Poland can had a same ideology as USSR yet to be independece for them and also securing our eastern flank we you go to war.
Damm this doesnt look bad. I tried HoI 3 once but it was so overcomplicated for my simple mind that i couldnt play it, but this seems ok :)
Polszoja artillerija, haraszo artillerija :D
How could you decide to become red? I am disappointed :( A na drzewach...
Poland fought pretty valiantly against the Nazis, even if the war was short. Germans actually lost 25% of their air force (of those engaged of course) during that war. Something Polish people should be proud of. You killed as much of those bastards as you could.
If I were I'd invaded Lithuania, joined the Fascist alliance (to facilitate the invasion of the Balkans), gave Danzig to Hitler in exchange for Slovakia and then stirred up enough trouble to capture the Carpathia mountain area of Romania and then flooded spies into both Germany and Soviet Union so as to acquire enough time to massively re-arm.
That said Marbozier why didn't you concentrate on building fighter planes knowing that in 1939 aerial superiority is one reasons why the Germans were able to blitkrieg in the first place.
Preparing for war against germany , with their Tanks and you have not researched anti tank guns ???? Or does this game ignore the unit types for blunt number min maxing and thus loose any realism ????
Poland being Communist. Well that never happened before.
At least not on its own
When your Russian for communist revolution, there's no time for Stalin
It's not true. After war we were a communist country but we stars to fighting with them after some year. Lots of people lose their lives in those times
one division with 519.3 soft attack...
It’s the winged hussars!
**** is gonna get real in the next episode!!!
every time i see "the anschluss" in a game it honestly saddens me.. tho even more that some stupids think that this should be a thing again...
Caumfermed Marbozir is a Polish Commie XD
Jk wub u
i suscribed only becose he play poland
on jest polakiem cwoku
no wiem ten akcent mewi sam za siebie
You wasted all the manpower on attrition :-( pay attention to a red skull near divisions..
Exercising for army experience consumes infantry equipment. Attrition in this context doesn't mean you lose manpower, it means you have a % chance to lose equipment (you can't actually lose troops from exercising). What actually happened was manpower being used to fill all the extra infantry battalions I added to all my divisions.
rekt
Quill got Ethiopia.
Artirery ;)
WE WILL NEED ARTILLERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
OMG! In late 1930's there was none as ANTI-COMUNIST country as Poland. In general Poland is CRAZY anti-communist even now. "we will go communist." This sounds REVOLTING! The idea is also revolting!
but these are nice videos:) pleasure to watch.
This was mostly to: 1. Polish-Bolshevik war of 1919-1921. and 2.there was no ground in POland for communist ideas: little factories and industralization, huge aristocratic heritage, huge attachment to catholic values, spike of nationalism, association of communist-bolshevik-russian that is still very alive in PL.
facist are better but okey choose the best for survive
you need anti tank or youll get rekt
Actually, I shouldn't need it. There's a tech after Infantry Weapons II - called Infantry Anti-Tank. It gives all infantry +25% hard attack and +100% piercing (insanely good against tanks). It's a 1942 tech, so it'll have a significant ahead of time penalty, however... I can still get a 50% research bonus for it from the focus tree (the one I'm about to get from standardization of equipment), which will reduce the time to research it from 600+ days to 300+ days. That's my plan currently.
+Marbozir holy shit well you seem to know your hoi4 my man ill be rooting for you it seems like a decent strategy!
Oh dear, they really need to nerf that, or infantry spamm will rule the game. :/
To MotherRussia!
Building up your Western Front... Any reason?
This game is historically accurate (for the most part) Marbs is simply preparing for Germany to invade.
What happens in about 3 years?
hehe yeah I get that. It's just funny that Poland conspicuously begins to reinforce their border way before Hitler invades Czechoslovakia or something.
But if the game is historically accurate, then Germany should favor a large number of tanks and air support. Pre-empting CZ to shorten the Polish front is an interesting twist.
Wszystko pięknie tylko czemu zostałeś komunistą :(
PLs, I beg of you Stop exercising with your troops, you have no manpower
Exercising DOES NOT use manpower, it uses infantry equipment - I explained this in the first episode (don't you think it would be really stupid if hundreds of thousands of troops died from military exercise?). Adding multiple new infantry battalions to every single division however, does use manpower. Seriously, please stop repeating this comment, it's 100% false.
then why is your manpower decreasing?
I literally just said it in my comment. I modified my division template (using army experience - you can see me do it in part 1 and then again in part 2 as I get army exp required to do it) and increased it from the initial 9 battalions to 25 (which is the maximum allowed division size not counting support battalions). One infantry battalion requires 1000 manpower, one artillery battalion requires 500 manpower. I added a total of 6 infantry and 10 artillery battalions compared to what the game starts with. This means each division of that type that I already had (30+), required additional 11,000 manpower and reinforcing to full strength is not instant.
oh I see
"today we are gonna do some militar trainer boys. since we don't have enough troops to form 2 armies, you civilians will be one army, and we professional soldiers will be the other one.
*We'll use live ammo and artillery*"
why not fascist? Id love to see a Poland-Germany Alliance
I was hoping that you'd get that great -prophet- socialist so that you could start your -religion- communist party!
I'm looking forward to you denying the germans Poland.
Meh, I wanted you to go democratic and create the Baltic alliance
Playing as commies (pfu!) is a easy way.
Should have gone fascist