i don't know what you're talking about, Memel is rightful mongolian land! don't you know of the struggle of the Memelian Mongolians to reunite with their brethren in Asia?
11:24 It's funny that Murmansk is the big port up there giving you trade, because in WW1 Murmansk was founded to be a port city so the Russians could avoid German submarines and get supplies
as an estonian there are a lot of memes about us being mongolians.. the mongolian parliamentary republic at the end just entirely broke me im pissing myself
Man, this is a really cool concept for a series. Maybe you could do it for all the countries! Oh, and to keep track of what you've done and what you need to do, maybe you could do them alphabetically!
Imagine being the allies, you just won the war and are now deciding how to carve up Europe, then the Baltic Federation comes in, declares they're giving all the land to Mongolia, refuses to elaborate further and leaves.
By the way, you should really start playing Minecraft. ISP channel does this for quite some time and I find it really fun, it’s in your best interests to beat your evil doppelgänger in content quality!
I don't think I've ever seen someone play full catholic Mexico, maybe there is a good reason for this, I don't know, but that would maybe be an interesting one to check out
I played catholic mexico and ended up taking over the world. Never intended for the game to go into the 60s, but hey it was pretty neat building a stupidly large navy as mexico. Edit: Technically it wasn't a full world conquest, but since the other nations left were in my faction, or puppets I'd consider that a world conquest.
Hey Sorrow, I have a challenge for you, play as Austria, refuse the anschluss, and conquer Germany, take back the Austro-Hungarian Empire, can you do it?
The problem with baltic focuss trees is the civil war if you do it wrong. There was literally 0 risk of civil war IRL so its like adding risk of civil war if you do it wrong to every country makes no sense.
watching you win as latvia makes me sad cos i cant even win as france the game is so complicated but i just love watching my men crash against brick german walls for hours on end
Latvia has a focus that gives it claims for Russia, Germany and Sweden. My personal goal has been to not only survive as Latvia, but also defeat all three of these powers. Haven't had much luck yet, would to to see a video like that.
Latvia's focus tree is one my favorites, but that stems from a personal preference of playing tall, which Latvia does permit. The democratic Latvia can be spliced with its independent fascist path, where you flip the paramilitaries to supporting you along with the democratic manpower options you get on that line. Its also very worthwhile to let Estonia just exist for a bit so they can max out their oil through their own focuses before federating/annexing them. I like to do the same thing with the communist belorusian SR path for latvia as well (you get the most cored territories with this path for latvia) and if you do the allied investments and get the ford motors modifier, you end up with really, REALLY cheap mechanized, especially after dumping army experience into reducing the cost further. What I usually do for army compositions for them is just make meatshield AA heavy foot divisions with superior firepower doctrine, AA +artillery support, engineers, recon, and field hospitals (manpower is a problem even with the absurd modifiers you get for it lol) , and then an elite army of 30 mechanized with motorized artillery and AA, with a general in command that has all the modifiers for them, and use him as a genius combined arms officer in my Command Staff. My line holds no matter what, while my mechanized cut up the enemy fronts like a hot knife through butter. Frequent overruns and large encirclements, while the infantry just follow along and build up entrenchment.
I'm hoping that the reason why Paradox didn't give Finland a focus tree in NSB is because they are planning a Nordic expansion (+ Germany re-work) for the next DLC
@@captain_hammer this would definitely make up for it. I just feel like Finland would have been a better fit for that DLC since ya know...the winter war as well as the fact that the Baltic states kinda just got rolled over by the soviets.
ISP played this game for so long that he forgot if you had mass mob and a 17/5 division, the AI cannot push you and get roflstomped each time while you take 10 casualties and they take 1000
Before the last patch I played democratic Estonia and united the baltics diplomatic. The main threat was always the SU, with a huge army at the borders and constant naval attacks from the back. As Estonia you can change your Capital to the isle of Ösel and fortify it heavy. It is quite good to defend and I "survived". But in the peace talks germany took all of my land because of the war score, even some parts of my never lost north of estonia. I had the same trouble with greece by going no step back but in the final peace talks losing the north to communist Bulgaria....
Joseph Stalin, also looking at the "Latvia for Latvians" focus with ISP: Yes, very questionable one, who are Latvians to say who should live and rule in Latvia?"
You can get decently powerful as estonia by forming the estonia-belarus SSR and then eating the other baltic nations (you get the rest of belarus from the molotov-ribbentrop pact)
Ah yes lativa surviving against the Soviet hordes pretty much any Baltic country's nemesis, a challenge up there with the greats. Such as artillery only ,Poland 1939 start , playing Spain in any capacity, and can't forget trying to have fun while playing Luxembourg
isp could you play as Denmark in 1939 and capitule. It is really fun gameplay. Especially when Denmark new capital became Nuuk and your entire army has only Inuits.
ISP memed so hard with Player-Led Peace Conferences that he didn't bother to retake his core of Memel from the Germans...
Same with Vilnius
i don't know what you're talking about, Memel is rightful mongolian land!
don't you know of the struggle of the Memelian Mongolians to reunite with their brethren in Asia?
@@sharkestry1119 no I don’t. Have u every heard of the Prussian crusaders ?
@@Erwin1293- Have you ever heard of humour or irony?
@@Erwin1293- Fool! It wasn't Prussian, it was the Catholic Egyptians who took the region!
First we had artillery only, then we had Latvia. Now we need ARTILLERY ONLY LATVIA
You first.
@@Namelesswhirl bet
Navy only We NEED navy only
What about Latvia only artillery?
Motorized artillery only
I’m sorry, but ISP’s chaotic energy has crossed a line with him putting ‘A Impossible Challenge’ in the title instead of ‘An Impossible Challenge’.
Absolutely dissapointing
His radical beliefs have gotten more pervasive as of late. Truly heartbreaking.
He went too far.
*THE impossible challenge
11:24 It's funny that Murmansk is the big port up there giving you trade, because in WW1 Murmansk was founded to be a port city so the Russians could avoid German submarines and get supplies
ISP is like that plane on the start screen, swiftly crashing into the depths of mental despair.
Great video ISP!
Bro really committed a kamikaze attack into his budget after doing this episode
E
as an estonian there are a lot of memes about us being mongolians.. the mongolian parliamentary republic at the end just entirely broke me im pissing myself
I’d like to see the other focus trees for the Baltics tbh
Agreed, I would like it too
Especially the fascist Lithuanian focus tree
@@arasgee9184 Ostland grindset
@@yigitoz8387 *Flashbacks to 1941*
I found the ISP lore keeper
Damn, interesting country and gameplay, I wish Latvia was a real country!
....
yeah me too ja tikai es tur dzīvotu. cik jauki vien tas būtu
If only
@@notsimpman2980 viss ir slikti
@@Slouworker ble parak slikti
That ending map with Japan occupying almost all of Australia haha.
Yea lmao I was like "Holy fuck what is happening in asia and oceania??"
@@incrediblybored4787 genocide, lots of genocide
He did not take Vilnius and Memel! 💀💀💀
bro forgot my country cities 💀
Glad to see Latvia playthroughs in HOI4! Thank you!
Man, this is a really cool concept for a series. Maybe you could do it for all the countries! Oh, and to keep track of what you've done and what you need to do, maybe you could do them alphabetically!
Don't worry ISP, I have send a clay tablet in ancient sumerian script to you, requesting you to play more Latvia!
Im latvian and everytime when someone plays or just mentions Latvia im so happy. And ISP should do a Latvia world conquest
Latvia exists.
@@Salnax What's Latvia?
@@Salnax This is a fantasy ww2 game
Honestly the brown Latvian paths are really fun. The Ostland one is fun and so is the Heathen one. Really cool stuff honestly
I thought Latvia was just a made up country?
After seeing this, it has given me the willpower to jump out of a window.
Doing more Baltics would be LIT.
(huania)?
This is my favorite video you've put out recently, real goblin mode playthrough. Thank you for suffering through that for us.
Imagine being the allies, you just won the war and are now deciding how to carve up Europe, then the Baltic Federation comes in, declares they're giving all the land to Mongolia, refuses to elaborate further and leaves.
ISP: Take Vilnius core during peacedeal challenge (impossible)
By the way, you should really start playing Minecraft. ISP channel does this for quite some time and I find it really fun, it’s in your best interests to beat your evil doppelgänger in content quality!
Churchill:how do we divide soviets and Germans?
Roosevelt:I don't know.
Baltics:hear me out, genghis khan.
I would love to see you go through more Baltic focuses, both for Latvia and the others
I don't think I've ever seen someone play full catholic Mexico, maybe there is a good reason for this, I don't know, but that would maybe be an interesting one to check out
I once played a religious Mexico with Trotsky in charge
I played catholic mexico and ended up taking over the world. Never intended for the game to go into the 60s, but hey it was pretty neat building a stupidly large navy as mexico.
Edit: Technically it wasn't a full world conquest, but since the other nations left were in my faction, or puppets I'd consider that a world conquest.
the baltic federation has a core on villnius why didnt u take that in the peace conference
Ive had this game for well over a year, and I still cant get my head around it...
ISP makes it look so easy...
Would love to see more Latvia.
Im so sweeaty for this video . .
Thanks isorrrowdaddy
Holy shitt my ears just went zoooooooom
I always love the Baltic episodes, prob because I m Lithuanian, but still
Sorry for your loss
Based
I'm still waiting for a fascist Lietuva video...
what's your opinion on latvians and estonians
Hey I am from Latvia 🇱🇻 BTW love your vids
I was waiting for a video all day!
*an impossible challenge
Minor spelling mistake
It can be said "a" but only if it's a hard *A* like aayy fuhget abowtet
your forgetting the silent h in impossible
Here before he changed the title 💪 *hopefully*
🤓🤓🤓
For fucks sake ISP you get Vilnius as a core.
isorrowproductions still alive and playing HOI4? Hell yeah
Hey Sorrow, I have a challenge for you, play as Austria, refuse the anschluss, and conquer Germany, take back the Austro-Hungarian Empire, can you do it?
4:50 If I learned anything from video games, it's to never trust a man with a mustache.
Do every country A-Z every foucus option!
Here's another fun fact about us. We invented the industrial mozarella machine, and it was one of us that made pringles tasty.
Man nothing gets me off like watching a burned out guy playing a 7 yo game
The problem with baltic focuss trees is the civil war if you do it wrong. There was literally 0 risk of civil war IRL so its like adding risk of civil war if you do it wrong to every country makes no sense.
As a man who has been to 2/3 Baltic countries, i can confirm that the drinking spot next to the Latvian Transport Ministry smells like rat piss.
It got torn down and now they are making a new railway station for the Rail Baltica project in that place.
@@harijsdobelis1446 Those fucking bastards, that piss corner was a national treasure.
"Is a impossible" very nice
I am from Lithuania. Soooo close with the country selection and yet so far. Great vid btw.
nu jo gaila bet jis man atrodo zaide lietuva :) pajieskot tau tik reike
I'm a simple man I see an ISP video I get excited and watch it
watching you win as latvia makes me sad cos i cant even win as france the game is so complicated but i just love watching my men crash against brick german walls for hours on end
I love how he didn't take the cores back.
15:10 as an Australian: G’da…I mean konichiwa
Latvia has a focus that gives it claims for Russia, Germany and Sweden. My personal goal has been to not only survive as Latvia, but also defeat all three of these powers. Haven't had much luck yet, would to to see a video like that.
Latvia's focus tree is one my favorites, but that stems from a personal preference of playing tall, which Latvia does permit. The democratic Latvia can be spliced with its independent fascist path, where you flip the paramilitaries to supporting you along with the democratic manpower options you get on that line. Its also very worthwhile to let Estonia just exist for a bit so they can max out their oil through their own focuses before federating/annexing them.
I like to do the same thing with the communist belorusian SR path for latvia as well (you get the most cored territories with this path for latvia) and if you do the allied investments and get the ford motors modifier, you end up with really, REALLY cheap mechanized, especially after dumping army experience into reducing the cost further. What I usually do for army compositions for them is just make meatshield AA heavy foot divisions with superior firepower doctrine, AA +artillery support, engineers, recon, and field hospitals (manpower is a problem even with the absurd modifiers you get for it lol) , and then an elite army of 30 mechanized with motorized artillery and AA, with a general in command that has all the modifiers for them, and use him as a genius combined arms officer in my Command Staff. My line holds no matter what, while my mechanized cut up the enemy fronts like a hot knife through butter. Frequent overruns and large encirclements, while the infantry just follow along and build up entrenchment.
Not only was I baited twice, but now he is asking more comments just to do the fun path of the tree!
Im from Latvia and this video is really funny 😂
Same i sorrow productions should do a Latvia world conquest that would be even funnier
Hot take, they should have added a finnish focus tree is NSB instead of the baltics.
I'm hoping that the reason why Paradox didn't give Finland a focus tree in NSB is because they are planning a Nordic expansion (+ Germany re-work) for the next DLC
@@captain_hammer this would definitely make up for it. I just feel like Finland would have been a better fit for that DLC since ya know...the winter war as well as the fact that the Baltic states kinda just got rolled over by the soviets.
ISP played this game for so long that he forgot if you had mass mob and a 17/5 division, the AI cannot push you and get roflstomped each time while you take 10 casualties and they take 1000
yeah do more bro. like your content
"Put the shoes back on" ISP 2023 quote of the year please. We need t shirts 🙏
peak minnesotan moment is getting excited over isp offhandedly mentioning your state
I like how he didn’t take Memel back after Germany capitulated
Before the last patch I played democratic Estonia and united the baltics diplomatic. The main threat was always the SU, with a huge army at the borders and constant naval attacks from the back. As Estonia you can change your Capital to the isle of Ösel and fortify it heavy. It is quite good to defend and I "survived". But in the peace talks germany took all of my land because of the war score, even some parts of my never lost north of estonia. I had the same trouble with greece by going no step back but in the final peace talks losing the north to communist Bulgaria....
I tried to train the pigeon to use smoke signals. Now the pigeon is on fire. Play Latvia, consume Finland, destroy Moscow
Very cool video Mr map man
I love that he laughs when he asks for us to hit the like button so he can have purpose
I actually got excited on the intro, and then you crashed me hard
FINALLY oh and also is it possible to use lithuania right?
I'm excited to the 2nd CK3 A-Z
Give us monarchist Estonia.
why didnt u take vilnius and memel u get cores there iirc
good video keep op the good work
Joseph Stalin, also looking at the "Latvia for Latvians" focus with ISP: Yes, very questionable one, who are Latvians to say who should live and rule in Latvia?"
2023, the year of ISP
Please do the Empire of Finno-Ugra, otherwise I will come to your house and force feed you donuts
You can get decently powerful as estonia by forming the estonia-belarus SSR and then eating the other baltic nations (you get the rest of belarus from the molotov-ribbentrop pact)
Finally a video that's worthy of the name sorrow. This challenge seems like pure hell
9:40 that noise shit me up
please do March of the eagles A2Z!
Do you see my smoke signals outside your house? It says, "get a life"
Using the navies of Norway and Denmark to protect your trade lanes with Germany who occupy their country is inspired.
I clicked on your MySpace link on your channel and was not disappointed
Okay seeing the Mongolian Parliamentary Republic owning all of Germany to Siberia made me laugh more than it should have.
please do all you want i will still watch
smh you forgot Vilnius
How you gonna see my smoke signals when the English sky looks like a blanket of smoke at all times
ISP the pigeon is on the way, and if it doesn’t arrive I will enact the smoke signals
I'd love to see you on Minecraft
ISP is seing latvia in his worst nightmare because of this video
Mongolian Parlamentary Republic. Finnish Tannu Tuva. Latvian Russia... and British Italy... We need an Exorcist...
I can’t wait to see what chaos 2023 will bring us here, on this channel.
@iSorrowproductions play a wacky nation of your choosing but every time something happens you drink...by 1939 you'll be just like Mr. Churchill
Happy fellow Mongolian noises
The ice cream joke was great
Ah yes lativa surviving against the Soviet hordes pretty much any Baltic country's nemesis, a challenge up there with the greats. Such as artillery only ,Poland 1939 start , playing Spain in any capacity, and can't forget trying to have fun while playing Luxembourg
Great video :)
Just bought No Step Back before the steam sale ended. Maybe try going down the path of "Estonia is Scandinavia" for a future video?
isp could you play as Denmark in 1939 and capitule. It is really fun gameplay. Especially when Denmark new capital became Nuuk and your entire army has only Inuits.
And remember to do Artillery Only at the same time!
Artillery Only Capitulated Denmark colab with Bokoen1 when???
first time ever that i see someone playing as latvia in hoi4 exept me
Lithuanian is straight up OP, so many cores.
I had a lot of fun as Ostland Latvia, you end up as more of an ally to the Germans than a puppet, and you get a lot of population and industry.
I still want to see ISP get the bear leader for Poland
kinda fun to see the scandinavian and baltic alliance
Latvia seems like a nice place, Shame it's just folklore tho.
yes pls play more latvia
ISPs recent obsession with mongolians is alarming, he might soon start drinking Кумыс