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Rather than a cav template, if you make the template a single artillery and then leave that as their only template the civil war is easier. A single artillery has quite literally 0 organization. So it gets instantly pushed by literally anything attacking it. Even if you then use cav units for their movement speed you'll still outfight them.
I prefer to do it with an equipment type that I have none of, like armored cars or anti-tank. That way the division has close to zero strength, it's literally just a bunch of guys without the equipment that they are supposed to be using.
Speaking of onions I remember a story about a soviet official who lost the favour of Stalin and was thus worried about being assassinated, particularly by poisoned food. He decided that he should eat only eggs, since he thought they couldn't be poisoned. But eggs can be poisoned and the NKVD killed him with eggs.
I mean, there is a story of KGB positioning a Bulgarian official through an umbrella, and the whole ordeal with Trotsky being killed by a pickaxe of all things. NKVD was kinda goofy ahh spy agency, but scarily effective
@@lmao6762 I think you might be slightly misremembering the first one, the umbrella assassination was a bulgarian dissident being killed by the Bulgarian communist secret service in London, although they may have had some KGB support.
I do Bukharin path pretty often actually, its pretty fun. You can get 0% consumer goods, which is kinda op, even with your construction speed debuffs. You even get the toned down version of the Stalinist COMECON focus (the one where you steal your puppet's factories), but with Bukharinist Russia (technically you should pick Rykov for 0% consumer goods) you could also steal resources from your puppets, but thats kinda redundant now with the new peace deals
14:11 ive played this path before and had the same thing I believe if you get the event "russian medelling in the americas" it gets rid of the modifier for all the countries that had it
That one is nice, but can be spiced up, though. When you completed "Colonial Army" foci, only the eastern (Christian-majority) East Indies and Batavia that should automatically given the recruitable pop. modifier. For the rest of the islands (the Muslim-majority Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Sumatra), there should be propaganda campaigns to recruit them. Also, upon Bevrijding, East Indies should be released as a Supervised State since that was the plan from both the Queen and Governor-General Stachouwer since May 1940.
You can win the civil war so fast by both trading away all of your equipment to Spain and making their units one width arty. It’s just the best way to do it.
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It's hard to believe I have been here since 2015. I have started and stopped watching many channels in that time but I have decided I will see this one through till the end. I have been here to long not to
Quick guide on how to end the civil war in 2/3 months. Make your army exercise for 5/10 army exp: you need that to make a usless 2 width anti-air template, and if you want to speed up the process, use the other 5 to make a 2 width cavalry template. Put all your mils on guns. Take only the territories with the railway west of chita. there is no need to worry about vladivostok. DO NOT take more than necessary. You'll need the pp for later. Before the war starts, do the lend lease cheese and convert all your division to the anti-air one. Once the war starts, convert all of your divisions to the cavalry one. Train as many as you can and spam them as soon as possible and go to war economy. Make a gigantic frontline, put on aggressive, and let them go. Keep some troops on the north and est border, so that you dont die. Once the war ends, start improving relation with china, so that you can sent an attaché to them and get the war support needed for your war economy. You can pretty much beat Germany in 39 with this setup.
I literally just did this today and I have a 4 hour game (and counting) where the entire world literally is at war with me, my only allies who are now captiulated are romania and italy
Dear ISP! Is there any chance, you could be showing your defense and offence templates time-to-time? I played this game a lot on release, but then tried now, I SUCKED! A lot changed. Would be appreciated to see an actual working divisions, since you usually set yourself to horrible situations, and somehow fight well!
Nine to fourteen infantry with up to four artillery. Add Antiair, artillery, and up to any three support companies of choice. This is a solid line holder, even if the enemy has air superiority. Fighters you max out heavy machine guns, and stitch on some self sealing fuel tanks and armor plates. You may want to replace the armor with extra turrets if you have production to spare. For offense, bring tanks and mechanized in reasonable quantities. Piercing is kind of unimportant, as the ai tanks do not prioritize armor. If you have 200 armor, you are unpiercable by the ai. A 3 tank and 6 mech is quick to produce and can generally punch through lines to get you a small encirclement, but you will want to beef them up sooner rather than later. Planes are key though. Control the skies and even trash units who are entirely focused on holding the line will bleed the enemy enough to walk over them.
so fun fact zemsky sobor is a kind of parliament but sobors in general in modern russian mean a particular kind of a church this is because we use the word soviet for parliaments or just the word parliament outter soviet linguistic victory
I play Romania a lot, but every time I just go for Balkans Dominance with His Majesty's Loyal Government and dominate the Balkans by '39 because the whole Preserve Greater Romania and Flexible Foreign Policy branches just lead you towards joining the big three factions rather than do any conquering of your own. So maybe a video where you do go flip-flop between all three factions as Romania?
I like how in that Third Rome event, Paradox forgot that Russia is Orthodox and the Patriarch is a leader of an Orthodox church yet they put some text in Latin on the button on the event even though Latin isn't used by any Orthodox church lmao. Bit of an oopsie daisy there
I actually did this yesterday just for fun. After I did the "Dismantle the Zemsky Sobor" focus, I joined the axis. Germany never kicked me from the faction or declared war on me even after they did the war goal focus. We defeated the allies, I got Canada and other colonies, went to war with the U.S.A. because we killed the allies before they joined, and it was all free real-estate from there. I didn't go third rome and stayed fascist, which I think is why Germany hasn't kicked me from the faction and attack me.
Fun Fact: The concept of a Third Rome originally came from Medieval Bulgaria in the 14th century when it experienced a cultural golden age and its capital Tarnovgrad eclipsed Constantinople, which had long been declining at that point. After the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria many Bulgarian scholars fled to the lands of the former Rus' (Ruthenia and the Duchy of Muscovy) and influenced the Muscovites with what was basically their unique interpretation of the Translatio Imperii.
nothing compares to ISP videos to go sleep with, me, who drank whole night and was debating for whole fucking morning, sorry for my language dear ladies and gentlemans, its such a pleasure
"ISP... This is the 7th time in a row you've shown a 'hidden' focus tree in class."
Good
What ideology is Ultra Lord?
"haha doo doo"
He’s stalling for artillery only
Imagine using grammatical quotations
Rather than a cav template, if you make the template a single artillery and then leave that as their only template the civil war is easier. A single artillery has quite literally 0 organization. So it gets instantly pushed by literally anything attacking it. Even if you then use cav units for their movement speed you'll still outfight them.
*artillery only ptsd*
No way, AI artillery only
or you just make an expensive div to the point the AI doesn't have the equipment to deploy them
actually anti air is better
I prefer to do it with an equipment type that I have none of, like armored cars or anti-tank. That way the division has close to zero strength, it's literally just a bunch of guys without the equipment that they are supposed to be using.
The AI formed this in an game for mine, it was cursed
I mean turning off historical focuses WILL be cursed.
@@Nikkidafox its cursed but fun
I had this too, only I had gone Roman Empire. The amount of confusion with all those playing was hilarious.
@@Nikkidafox It will be. but unlike most people, I actually like to set Historical off
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Speaking of onions I remember a story about a soviet official who lost the favour of Stalin and was thus worried about being assassinated, particularly by poisoned food. He decided that he should eat only eggs, since he thought they couldn't be poisoned. But eggs can be poisoned and the NKVD killed him with eggs.
I mean, there is a story of KGB positioning a Bulgarian official through an umbrella, and the whole ordeal with Trotsky being killed by a pickaxe of all things. NKVD was kinda goofy ahh spy agency, but scarily effective
@@lmao6762 Honestly spy-craft in general is extremely goofy...
@@lmao6762 I think you might be slightly misremembering the first one, the umbrella assassination was a bulgarian dissident being killed by the Bulgarian communist secret service in London, although they may have had some KGB support.
Let's say that he lost the flavour of Stalin
@@aureliovinci5888 eggscellent
I do Bukharin path pretty often actually, its pretty fun. You can get 0% consumer goods, which is kinda op, even with your construction speed debuffs. You even get the toned down version of the Stalinist COMECON focus (the one where you steal your puppet's factories), but with Bukharinist Russia (technically you should pick Rykov for 0% consumer goods) you could also steal resources from your puppets, but thats kinda redundant now with the new peace deals
"human rights? Nah, they don't even get cutlery why would we give them rights?"
It's my favorite personally
Ya it’s pretty OP
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Imagine Death of Stalin but instead of Stalin, it's Meletius and instead of Field Marshall Zhukov, it's Grand Admiral Emil
Grand Admiral Email Kolar
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14:11 ive played this path before and had the same thing I believe if you get the event "russian medelling in the americas" it gets rid of the modifier for all the countries that had it
I found this channel from a Kotaku article about how this channel supports right wing nationalism. It seems they were accurate...
How dare ISP take Mountain Generals glory.
True
Lmao good ol’ kotaku
Is this a Joke or are u serious?
@@uberhue what did he do
this is a certified isp moment
Me when I have dementia
Kidney failure
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I now want to see a 2-player game with Pope Roman Empire and Patriarch Third Rome.
We all know the strangest focus is “United Balkan Federation”
8:46 anyone notice Greece inflicting 1.8 million casualties?
Maybe you can do the historical Netherlands where you move your capital to Indonesia, there is a achievement too if you want
That one is nice, but can be spiced up, though.
When you completed "Colonial Army" foci, only the eastern (Christian-majority) East Indies and Batavia that should automatically given the recruitable pop. modifier. For the rest of the islands (the Muslim-majority Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Sumatra), there should be propaganda campaigns to recruit them.
Also, upon Bevrijding, East Indies should be released as a Supervised State since that was the plan from both the Queen and Governor-General Stachouwer since May 1940.
You can win the civil war so fast by both trading away all of your equipment to Spain and making their units one width arty. It’s just the best way to do it.
Fun fact. If you manage to make Third Rome facist, the flag becomes black and gold instead.
"because just like me you are also trapped here forever"
Oh boy, something to fill in the howling silence!
I still wonder to this day what his plane templates are
Same here
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Just max air attack. Thats all that matters. Agility is useless for fighter v fighter combat.
“Uploaded 8 seconds ago” noice
Tanna Tuva armored car only when?
fr fr
You're so real for this
Fun fact:Did you know that the world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico? The Great Pyramid of Cholula is a massive ancient structure located in present-day Mexico. It covers an area of over 4 acres and is nearly 100 feet tall. It was built by the ancient Maya civilization as a temple to the god Quetzalcoatl and was later covered by the Aztecs with earth and clay, giving it the appearance of a natural hill.
I'm warming up some boneless barbecue chicken wings in the oven.
I literally just saved my outline for my research paper, turned on the video, booted up hoi4, and momentarily realized my hell.
0:10 hahah hello darkness my old friend.
You know one day Paradox will milk us with HOI5, ISP will make videos saying "welcome back to HOI4+1" and the matrix will just glitch out
1:04 omg Tsar Nicholas is still playing Hoi4 Great War
I'm more impressed by the 2 million German casualties to the Kingdom of Greece... That must have been one hell of an encirclement.
8:15 interesting seeing all of those Bolshevik ship names being used by the wacky third rome
It's hard to believe I have been here since 2015. I have started and stopped watching many channels in that time but I have decided I will see this one through till the end. I have been here to long not to
the "wake up" at the end felt like being a sleeper agent
I am sure paradox was laughing its butt off when making the idea for "third rome"
Russia (the empire, at least) actually called itself the Third Rome so that's where they got the idea from
Mussolini: I am the TRUE inheritor of ROME!!!!
Some random generals from the Russian civil war: lmao, national focus go brrrrr
Quick guide on how to end the civil war in 2/3 months. Make your army exercise for 5/10 army exp: you need that to make a usless 2 width anti-air template, and if you want to speed up the process, use the other 5 to make a 2 width cavalry template.
Put all your mils on guns.
Take only the territories with the railway west of chita. there is no need to worry about vladivostok.
DO NOT take more than necessary. You'll need the pp for later.
Before the war starts, do the lend lease cheese and convert all your division to the anti-air one.
Once the war starts, convert all of your divisions to the cavalry one. Train as many as you can and spam them as soon as possible and go to war economy.
Make a gigantic frontline, put on aggressive, and let them go. Keep some troops on the north and est border, so that you dont die.
Once the war ends, start improving relation with china, so that you can sent an attaché to them and get the war support needed for your war economy.
You can pretty much beat Germany in 39 with this setup.
0:50 you can see the little sanity left leave at this exact moment.
Rome, so good they even made a Rome 3.
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The “Hold On A Minute, How is This Rome” Edition
Need to see Third Rome and the Pope in a faction together
"Did not make it out the basement" Lmao XD
I am a simple man, I see ISP I click 👌
While watching this video I got an ad with Jesse trying to start the van while mr white is eating those popcorn chips
Me: depression, sadness
ISP uploads new video
Me: *visible happiness*
depression and sadness what ISP feels when he uploads a video every time
@@stupiditysucks1313 that's perfectly balanced exchange imho 😂
I literally just did this today and I have a 4 hour game (and counting) where the entire world literally is at war with me, my only allies who are now captiulated are romania and italy
ISP Windu when he doesn't know which side Zhukov will take:
HE'S TOO DANGEROUS TO BE LEFT ALIVE 😂
So kind of you to post a video right as I'm about to eat
Dear ISP! Is there any chance, you could be showing your defense and offence templates time-to-time? I played this game a lot on release, but then tried now, I SUCKED! A lot changed. Would be appreciated to see an actual working divisions, since you usually set yourself to horrible situations, and somehow fight well!
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Nine to fourteen infantry with up to four artillery. Add Antiair, artillery, and up to any three support companies of choice. This is a solid line holder, even if the enemy has air superiority.
Fighters you max out heavy machine guns, and stitch on some self sealing fuel tanks and armor plates. You may want to replace the armor with extra turrets if you have production to spare.
For offense, bring tanks and mechanized in reasonable quantities. Piercing is kind of unimportant, as the ai tanks do not prioritize armor. If you have 200 armor, you are unpiercable by the ai. A 3 tank and 6 mech is quick to produce and can generally punch through lines to get you a small encirclement, but you will want to beef them up sooner rather than later.
Planes are key though. Control the skies and even trash units who are entirely focused on holding the line will bleed the enemy enough to walk over them.
little timmy man
I LOVE YOUR LAUGH!
All my experience with this game is this damn channel, but you constantly make me ask myself How??? Why??? Damn I love this game lmao
This was my first alt history russia focus tree.
Did nothing though.
ISP Video yay🎉
I had the 3rd rome appear on my papal states run. Gave me a good chuckle
Gravy Timmy is bathing in gravy of timmies
Every time I hear "little Timmy" joy fills me
so fun fact
zemsky sobor is a kind of parliament
but sobors in general in modern russian mean a particular kind of a church
this is because we use the word soviet for parliaments
or just the word parliament
outter soviet linguistic victory
"keev" oh god, not you too
14:44 “Although given historical precedent that is probably not very sensitive”
The first 15 seconds hit like a goddamn T-34.
At this this point I am not ever sure I am here by my free will any longer
Great ending. Issue is that the vid came out a few seconds ago
My first soviet union focus that I went down after no step back
ISP: Good morning, Timmy’s!
Me reading time in American: Sir, it’s one in the afternoon…
2:22 I actually have had Zuckov flip I. The civil war
The AI Loves to take the Bukarin path for some reason
The title of Defier of stuff is such a UA-cam thing.
very good
Also lend leasing your whole stockpile to Spain and then cancelling it when the civil war starts its a good cheese strat
Achievement hunting you say... How about some 30 minutes of Hel?
I spent hours looking for the third Rome to complete the achievement for Italy!
You just need Moscow, not for the ai to form it
@@AlsoSunsteel I Know I was just wondering which city was the third with Rome and Istanbul, I just couldn't find out whether the third was Moscow.
@@legionofrome2967 Yes it it
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I am also trapped here forever
shoutout sean ranklin
Hey ISP, you should check out some of the CK3 mods.
2:57 "KeEev" 💀💀💀
YES MY FAVORITE CATBOY UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO
I play Romania a lot, but every time I just go for Balkans Dominance with His Majesty's Loyal Government and dominate the Balkans by '39 because the whole Preserve Greater Romania and Flexible Foreign Policy branches just lead you towards joining the big three factions rather than do any conquering of your own. So maybe a video where you do go flip-flop between all three factions as Romania?
"Mom can we have revolution?"
"We have revolution at home"
Revolution at home:
how is this man so good? I capitulate 90% of the time I play soviet
Based isp does the thing
We wanna be called gravybabies!
Tanna Tuva world conquest speed run
As someone from Siberia I absolutely agree it sucks
Good Morning is weird to hear while its 21:30 over in turkey..
alot done? we are gravy babies of course not!
"Grey skies, depression and onions"
Thoight you were gonna say France
Well no I never actually thought that but hey
Me, an intellectual: "But what about second-Rome? We've had one, yes....."
No Mr. ISP I did not have a good day, I have norovirus.
I like how in that Third Rome event, Paradox forgot that Russia is Orthodox and the Patriarch is a leader of an Orthodox church yet they put some text in Latin on the button on the event even though Latin isn't used by any Orthodox church lmao. Bit of an oopsie daisy there
Patriarch Meletius is such a youtube
as a gravy baby this pleases me
Isp have you ever tried the artillery only challenge? I advice you to play as bosnia
My life is war games
The Romans strike back!
For the third time.
I actually did this yesterday just for fun. After I did the "Dismantle the Zemsky Sobor" focus, I joined the axis. Germany never kicked me from the faction or declared war on me even after they did the war goal focus. We defeated the allies, I got Canada and other colonies, went to war with the U.S.A. because we killed the allies before they joined, and it was all free real-estate from there. I didn't go third rome and stayed fascist, which I think is why Germany hasn't kicked me from the faction and attack me.
ISP please do March of the eagles A2Z!
8:49 Wtf did Germany do to lose 1.8m Men to Greece xD
I wish that it actually renamed the national spirits again to things like "Roman Air Force" and "Roman Corporate State".
Fun Fact: The concept of a Third Rome originally came from Medieval Bulgaria in the 14th century when it experienced a cultural golden age and its capital Tarnovgrad eclipsed Constantinople, which had long been declining at that point. After the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria many Bulgarian scholars fled to the lands of the former Rus' (Ruthenia and the Duchy of Muscovy) and influenced the Muscovites with what was basically their unique interpretation of the Translatio Imperii.
nothing compares to ISP videos to go sleep with, me, who drank whole night and was debating for whole fucking morning, sorry for my language dear ladies and gentlemans, its such a pleasure
im little timmy surrov
single artillery is the best div for instant winning a civil war.
Russia went from Stalin to Tsar to the Defier of the sun god in just 4 years
Do historical Switzerland!!
mommy isp has uploaded another video!