Strongest Soviets I have ever played was the Bukharin path providing you can assassinate Stalin early enough to not lose anyone important to purges. This allows you to avoid a civil war as well. Gets so many buffs to production and consumer goods to put on top of any industrial research you are doing that you can outproduce anyone in the world including the US easily.
It’s better to do the civil war as early as possible instead of the coup, If the strat for the civil war still works, where you convert all your troops to the shittiest possible, then when the civil war starts convert them to speedy troops
The assassination path is not worth it at all. Just fire the civil war and cheese it so you win by October 36, you save 5 focuses and can apply the Right Path industry boosts earlier
Downside is that if u get some debuffs to army/navy/air force (anti-soviet military thinking) u cant get rid of them without civil war so u get debuffed for the rest of the game
The buffs to production and civilian goods more than offset any debuffs you might get. Personally never had any issues with that and my goal every time I do this path is to avoid a civil war. Being able to build and then actually equip a massive army is the Soviets greatest strength. The Soviet Union even in the best situation is never going to beat the Germans with quality. Where the can beat the Germans is manpower, industry, and resources. Which the path takes and cranks up to insane levels. Those extra civilian factories can be used to make forts before the invasion, or building supply depots or increasing your railroad network. The extra production can be used to actually supply the largest army and air force in the world.
@@filiperosa7496 for over 200 centuries yankees whine about leadership and russians praise theirs. In the same span we've seen US become superpower and Russia... repeatedly trying to go back to Napoleonic era?0_o
Albania having south Africa actually has some "historical" background. It's where the royal family went into exile. Current head of the Royal house was actually born there.
@@joestead346 you civil war as the fascists, then you can annex the commonwealth in one war and form imperial federation. its not as many cores but its such a quick way to blitz the world. you can then invade America. france, and then the axis to form european union.
Pro gamer tip: Soviet Union (and any commie country, I think) has an occupation law called “liberated workers”. It’s the best one in the game! Very useful.
@@theoheinrich529 I used to agree, but… Recently I noticed that the resistance reduction that LW gives is more worth it than the very small compliance difference between it and CA. Also, you get compliance for what reason? More factories! 👍 Even if you want collab states, LW is almost as fast. Sometimes faster even, as the resistance gets much lower.
@@hanneslundin346 if you're planning a long game, which to be fair nobody does, civilian oversight is better, but in the shorter term it is impossible to disagree with you
@@bozzo9081 Actually, the only nerf that really works is the lost of experience from pilots which has a minor impact. I have to search but a dude made a video on it. I'll link it.
I really like these less 'scripted' videos, more just going in and having fun making stuff up as you go, would love to see more videos in this style. Either way, keep up the good work mate, brilliant as always.
Damn, this video most have been under production for quite some time, since it's pre by blood alone Still a fantastic video though, keep up the good work!
TBH I think it would make sense to have a path or fork in the focus tree that allows the Soviet union to forgo or at least delay the great purge if it is already engaged in a war with a great power by a certain date. Stalin may have been a paranoid bastard, but I don't think he would have killed off most of the military top brass during an active war, at least not until the outcome was certain. Then he'd probably start worrying about the successful generals becoming a bit too popular.
As a Kansan it's hilarious that the capital of the glorious Kansas Socialist State is Wichita in HOI4. And not Topeka - the actual capital of Kansas. Or it's a 4D chess move from Paradox knowing that Earl Browder (the leader of the Communist Party USA during the time) was from Wichita. Or Paradox just didn't know it was Topeka.
My favorite start with USSR : justify on Turkey (guaranteed by Romania), very easy win, annex Trabzon, and puppet them and Kurdistan, then go for communist influence in Iran & Afghanistan, industrial focus, and you got a giga overpowered Komintern to do all achievements you want
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No
Ew
Disgusting
on god
Thanks to ISP I now feel the need to spent copious amounts of money on a mobile game.
Edit: I’m now in crippling debt
Should've changed the title to "The Most Overpowered Albania Possible" because This is the best they're ever gonna get
Nah, irl Albania is even stronger
Red and black I dress eagle on my chest
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@@pao5567 good to be an Albanian
@@cringe7391 keep my head up high for flag I die
This feels like C&C Red Alert with how quickly ISP managed to get the Soviets from one coast to the other in Europe.
Space!
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SOVIET POWER SUPREME
@@mitternacht4062 THEY WILL RUN IN FEAR.
IT WILL SOON BE A WASTELAND
Stalin: “Make Kansas the gulag….”
1930s Kansas residents: “Eh….not much different…..”
2022 Kansas residents*
Kansas Holodomor
@@shinsenshogun900 also known as the Dust Bowl
@@pao5567 It's not THAT bad in 2022. In the 1930s, though...
@@KirameshiHakume isn't mid west and southern usa like, really fucking poor?
Strongest Soviets I have ever played was the Bukharin path providing you can assassinate Stalin early enough to not lose anyone important to purges. This allows you to avoid a civil war as well. Gets so many buffs to production and consumer goods to put on top of any industrial research you are doing that you can outproduce anyone in the world including the US easily.
It’s better to do the civil war as early as possible instead of the coup, If the strat for the civil war still works, where you convert all your troops to the shittiest possible, then when the civil war starts convert them to speedy troops
I feel like Bukharin is so good that it makes Trotsky an intentional hard mode.
The assassination path is not worth it at all. Just fire the civil war and cheese it so you win by October 36, you save 5 focuses and can apply the Right Path industry boosts earlier
Downside is that if u get some debuffs to army/navy/air force (anti-soviet military thinking) u cant get rid of them without civil war so u get debuffed for the rest of the game
The buffs to production and civilian goods more than offset any debuffs you might get. Personally never had any issues with that and my goal every time I do this path is to avoid a civil war. Being able to build and then actually equip a massive army is the Soviets greatest strength. The Soviet Union even in the best situation is never going to beat the Germans with quality. Where the can beat the Germans is manpower, industry, and resources. Which the path takes and cranks up to insane levels. Those extra civilian factories can be used to make forts before the invasion, or building supply depots or increasing your railroad network. The extra production can be used to actually supply the largest army and air force in the world.
I feel like the universe nerfed some countries in history by giving them bad leadership just to make the game more fair
Mexico 💀
USA
Spain got a huge nerf
@@filiperosa7496 for over 200 centuries yankees whine about leadership and russians praise theirs. In the same span we've seen US become superpower and Russia... repeatedly trying to go back to Napoleonic era?0_o
Argentina with peronism
Albania having south Africa actually has some "historical" background.
It's where the royal family went into exile.
Current head of the Royal house was actually born there.
The Albanians had some part in helping the Rhodesians as well, some cool photos of the King in Bushstroke camo out there
Big if true
@@tobiasansonpalma8773 nice, he helped a bunch of racists.
@@4thzone697 how deep
Oh the overpowered series is always really cool thanks for making more of it
He could easily make another for the UK, the Mosley path is so broken right now, you can make eu by like 39.
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@@grantforester1864 how?
@@joestead346 you civil war as the fascists, then you can annex the commonwealth in one war and form imperial federation. its not as many cores but its such a quick way to blitz the world. you can then invade America. france, and then the axis to form european union.
Pro gamer tip:
Soviet Union (and any commie country, I think) has an occupation law called “liberated workers”. It’s the best one in the game! Very useful.
In terms of getting the most amount of factories, yes. For compliance, civilian authority (or local authority for democracies) would be better.
@@theoheinrich529 I used to agree, but…
Recently I noticed that the resistance reduction that LW gives is more worth it than the very small compliance difference between it and CA. Also, you get compliance for what reason? More factories! 👍
Even if you want collab states, LW is almost as fast. Sometimes faster even, as the resistance gets much lower.
@@hanneslundin346 if you're planning a long game, which to be fair nobody does, civilian oversight is better, but in the shorter term it is impossible to disagree with you
@@theoheinrich529 reconcilation in kurdistan is best
@@giganigga3025 Only Turkey gets it, though, to deal with pissed off Kurds and only pissed off Kurds.
let's start an overpowered series where he makes every single country op one by one
A to z part 2 electric boogaloo
So it's just playing the Meta TM in hoi4?
@@alphaundpinsel2431 I mean ultra op meta
OP independent democratic New Zealand when?
I can't believe isp murdered mountain general 😢
Rip snoop dog
rip my favourite rapper😭😭😭😭😭 you were too young to die 💔💔💔💔
Fever dreams be like:
Only in Ohio 💀
The thing is the devs never coded the nerfs on the soviet air force. So you can be even faster in your focus tree and ignore it.
wait really!
Source?
@@bozzo9081 Actually, the only nerf that really works is the lost of experience from pilots which has a minor impact. I have to search but a dude made a video on it. I'll link it.
@@dystop_ ua-cam.com/video/4bCm-WS4zs8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=71Cloak
@@Leo-jf8ww I think it's a video by 71Cloak
I feel betrayed that Enver Hoxha doesn’t give a fort construction buff
I really like these less 'scripted' videos, more just going in and having fun making stuff up as you go, would love to see more videos in this style. Either way, keep up the good work mate, brilliant as always.
Damn, this video most have been under production for quite some time, since it's pre by blood alone
Still a fantastic video though, keep up the good work!
Video Idea: play a country without building any military factories (focus builds allowed) but other than that, no mills
always a decent day when this legend uploads (sorry for anyone allergic to generic comments)
4:56 Bofa is a word now
I know this was released a year or more ago, but Inter-War artillery in 1941 (11:20) is crazy.
The dedication is why ive loved you since middle school, i dropped out of college two years ago man
Now its time for March of the eagles A2Z
Mr. Stalin, we have finally beated Yugoslavia, should we give Italy their claimed territories?
NO! Albania shall grow LARGER
Btw soviet airforce debuffs are actually broken and do almost nothing
Strongest Soviets Ever
Poland to Balic States:" Don't f ing move... he sense movment"
ISP you should post more frequently cant get my daily ISP dose enough. Feel addicted to your videos damn
4:38 I think I got a bit of shell shock from hearing him say that again
Just came home from a party and am drunk af. It was really nice being able to turn off my brain for 16 minutes:) loving the great content!
Nation: *exists*
Isorrow: you made a biiiiiiiig mistake buddy
I want to thank you isorrowproductions for making these videos. I always watch them and they are great.
Thanks to ISP I now feel the need to spent copious amounts of money on a mobile game.
Edit: I’m now in crippling debt
Relatable tbh
I remember learning about how the Soviets invented the Blitzkrieg
2:55 best part of the video
TBH I think it would make sense to have a path or fork in the focus tree that allows the Soviet union to forgo or at least delay the great purge if it is already engaged in a war with a great power by a certain date. Stalin may have been a paranoid bastard, but I don't think he would have killed off most of the military top brass during an active war, at least not until the outcome was certain.
Then he'd probably start worrying about the successful generals becoming a bit too popular.
Albania and its pet Soviet Union really did well this game.
0:57 “diplomatic play”😂
Fr
As a Timmy I enjoy every-time you say hello to me. Makes my day that much better!
Can't wait for him to do The reverse achievement paradox made
I don't think subversive activity cost does anything, pretty sure it's been broken since La resistance
It lowers war goal justification time and cost, which can be... quite potent.
A shame they didn't give Enver Hoxha something like a 50% fort construction speed buff
2:54 "- I'm making the plan as we go
- A trait that much Russian leadership is still using to this da.."
I'M DEAD, LMAOOO
I Want to see in the Next Video : The most Overpowered tannu tuva possible.
Ottoman Merhant Republic in EU4.
The Baltics still stand, we are number 1! Strong man iSorrowproductions brought to his knees by the might of our marketplaces
We saw a-z now we need all achievements
oh god
Is ISP no longer powered by Ironside?
This game feels very Red Alert.
11:42 damn you did to the Americans the same thing they did to the natives. Impressive.
As a Kansan it's hilarious that the capital of the glorious Kansas Socialist State is Wichita in HOI4. And not Topeka - the actual capital of Kansas. Or it's a 4D chess move from Paradox knowing that Earl Browder (the leader of the Communist Party USA during the time) was from Wichita.
Or Paradox just didn't know it was Topeka.
I think you no longer need to land a division in puppets to take them in the peace deal. The new peace deal system just lets you take them.
5:37 "What's left of Poland" huehue cuz it's the left side of Poland. Pun intended maybe?
Wichita, Kansas being the capital is cursed. •_•
Actually, leader of communist party USA Earl Browder was from Wichita
The Stalin in the thumbnail is so cursed
reminder that Italian East Africa is a starting nation in 1939
Bring back the Rat
ISorrowproductions You’re favorite game rise of kingdoms is now in pc
Me:who told you it was my favorite?
I hope you do more videos on the Red Flood mod because of how batshit insane it is.
real life was just a hoi4 game but the players left in 1949
Soviets were so overpowered that they were removed from the game map in update patch 19.91
Currently paranoia is bugged so blasting generals doesn't lower it, I believe. Sucks for non Stalin routes.
Oh I thought this said 2 months ago so when it said recorded before bba was released I was confusion
when your people actually get fed
The worst part is he didn't even take south Sakhalin
Can you show off the new naval system tweeks? Pretty please with a luxembourg on top!??
I tried following this strat, but UK and France guaranteed Austria before I could declare war.
My favorite start with USSR : justify on Turkey (guaranteed by Romania), very easy win, annex Trabzon, and puppet them and Kurdistan, then go for communist influence in Iran & Afghanistan, industrial focus, and you got a giga overpowered Komintern to do all achievements you want
The Baltics must be sweating pretty hard in that universe
I imagine he just forgot they exist
me doing the exact same and loosing completely:
I saw this video when it was uploaded 8 minutes ago so at 1:01 Eastern time
makes sense that hoxha becomes stalin’s man in the balkans
OMG another upload from the geography man ?
Stellaris A to Z artillery only when?
You should bring the rat back.
I love how the US is just in Kansas
I thought I saw subscribed to ISP and I even got notifications but I somehow wasn't. But I don't mind subscribing to ISP multiple times!
Hey ISP, you know you can take navies in peace deals now right? No need to puppet nations for their navy anymore
This was recorded before BBA. Wish people would read the notice
i think we need another artillery only
the hello at the beginning sounds pretty goofy
Your still doing hoi4 video I swear I've watched you for years
I was gonna mention, how it's an older version, but then I remembered that USSR is broken in the new one
Everything is broken in the new one
Hello again Mr. iSorrow!!
4:39 implying future artillery only video?😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏
Until now,
We still wondering who is Timmy is
As an Albanian thank you
Oh my god, ISP got so stupid he’s gone all the way around and become smart
did... did I travel back in time? This seems a little old.
When are we getting overpowered china
I don’t understand how you beat Germany so easily. I can’t seem to get it right then they push me back to Moscow
Play Nepal again they have new spirit and more divisions making it more overpowered
papa stalin will remember that
Cool. Now try to completly unify China in total chaos mod.
15:34 literally 1984
Tetris when?
old peace conf ISP?
IIRC none of the air force debuffs actually do anything important
it just me or does ISP not have BBA on in this?
14 seconds. 14 seconds into the video
Hmm yes lore of the most overpowered Soviets possible momentum 100
As an Albanian this is based
Still cannot into Tannu Tuva
Next series recommendation and sub goal: hoi4 a-z artillery only at 1m subs. why? why not?
I think it would of been hilarious if we saw Yugoslavia collapse the entire global Soviet Union because isp simply wasn't paying attention
*would’ve