My guess is actually that this was a multiplayer game! The research and lack of spy tech suggests that Germany was a player (bad one). But the tanks and efficiency of the Soviet Union suggests this was another player! Hence the lack of Ironman save
imagine being a messenger having to tell stalin that the capitulated germans who were exiled in the UK managed to land in northern germany and from there curbstomped them from total victory into total defeat
At 1:03 i felt my heart sink as he cancelled the *almost complete* atomic research (ik it won't have saved the game but he used to let it finish in previous disaster saves AND there was a FREE research slot at the top)
Chinese troops manning the Maginot against the Kaiser, Yugoslavia ruling the Mediterranean, the Kaiser’s Royal Navy attempting to hold Portugal against the Soviet fleet, inverse D-Day in Denmark…what the hell happened in this run?
NGL Britain being what's left of Germany reminds me of a Blackadder joke about the British monarchy having German ancestors, German husband, and itself am half German
Honestly I think this one was a real disaster save. I doubt the last one you did with the Soviet Union having to defend Moscow was. Simply because it was setup like the AI. But this feels fairly real. Like the person who was playing the Germans just had no idea what they were doing.
@@tuluppampam Actually the agency was the thing that convinced me. That and the lack of tank research. AI sucks at organizing. But will never forget about tank research and the agency. I genuinely believe this player just really, really sucked. Which is fine and understandable. Even I, at 800 hours in, am still trying to beat the Soviet Union as Fascist Germany in historical.
@@sejozwak Okay. Can you please tell me then what exactly my spacemarine template should look like? I did a 14/4 with 2 battalions of medium tanks. 48 of these space marines divisions. And then I invaded the Soviet Union and got massacred.
This is an incredible example of the kind of shennagins that happen in multiplayer... or console commands, one of the two. At any rate still a fun save to watch and to play. 6/10 for the save, 10/10 for the video.
One thing that could be interesting for Hoi4 in general and especially for disaster saves would be if Hoi4 had a tool similar to Eu4 where you can playback the game.
I really loved the Biography of von Lettow-Vorbeck. It was really interesting and fascinating to get some insight into the times of the Kaiserreich and it's militaristic society, as well as the wars and his take on his time in Africa. I recommend it to anyone.
Definitely a recommendation to read the book by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. It‘s called „Heia Safari“ in which he tells about his experience as leading General in German East Africa. Great to actually hear how they managed to hold out the entire World War I without capitulating against so many troops just by using guerilla tactics. The finest guerilla tactics you ever have seen. Truly a book that is worth to read
My theory how it got this bad is the following: SP Game Germany: Germany did his thing, killing the British, then went AFK for a year comes back to being completely overrun by the soviets, declaring on him.
The scariest part of this whole scenario was when you had to move all your troops to Norwich, I felt so sorry for them there's like, literally nothing to do in Norwich
I created a (satirical) Reverse Sealion scenario like fifteen years ago something. Basically I got tired I hearing about Germany invading Britain that I wanted to have Britain invade Europe for once. Afterward, somebody else came along, asked if he could use my idea and then wrote something a lot more serious. He did such a good job I suggested he should turn it into a book.
You might as well use the armor and breakthrough of that huge stockpile of light tanks and design an extra soft attack light tank and then upgrade the stockpile.
I guess the devs never considered what would happen when 2 sides are demanding territory and neither can afford it all. They should add a sort of "unify" war goal that bypasses the truce and guarantees so I don't have to see a random patchy USSR in the middle of my Russian puppet.
Man i really wanted to know the lost count on soviets after those huge encirclements but still it was a really fun disaster game to watch thank you so much
tbh, this starting situation alone smells like this save is a troll save. I am sure that you'll be able to restore the Kaiserreich, but still, this is very sus. I'd almost recommend a rule that future saves have to be ironman. Not that it's impossible to fudge an ironman save, but still.
7:14 correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to put taskforces on both strikeforce and patrol? Patrol taskforces find the enemy and then the strikeforce taskforce sails out to engage the enemy, or at least that's what my understanding of how the navy is supposed to work.
Apx. 20:35 you can deal with a problem fleet like that by setting naval bombers to port strike and/or naval attack dependingon the situation. The AI will move the fleet to get away from the planes.
10:16 that actually sounds like a really fun challenge as the player, you push a major to the brink of defeat, but then switch over to them to see if you can win it from the AI's end
It can't be a case of the player playing as the Soviets and asking you to play as Germany because historical focuses were on, and you were playing as the Kaiser and not as the mustache man
i saw this on reddit a while back and thought it looked in interesting. I thought that you kinda gave up on this since its been a while, but Im glad you did it.
I also did this save as well, it was pretty fun, I did the same spot you did for my second naval invasion, the soviets technically won the war but I still kept my land and was able to get enough points to come back from being capped
This is amazing timing for the video to get recommended, I just had this situation in my save because I attacked the soviets too late and they wiped me out, I had a little more time with Italy because they did a civil war and somehow survived- but eventually they capitulated too soon and I failed anyway. I managed to cause a coup in the USA as they were the only people I needed to capitulate to win one of the wars I think, but they didn't capitulate in time for me to win good video though, :)
10:09 i doubt that the player was playing the soviets. If you pause it at just the right moment here. you can see the soviet tank template. It includes medium tanks, light tanks, motorised. shovel support and armoured car support. its just the soviet tank division, not a light tank division and a medium tank division, just looks like multiple mediums. no player that i know even uses light tanks and medium tanks in the same template, let alone also using armoured car support. maybe the soviets just switched the template to an ai made template tho
quite a conundrum this game is. On one side its amazing that a player is able to make a glorious comback like this, but on the other hand its depressing the AI can't leverage its overwhelming advantage.
Trickery or not. Still interesting to watch this scenario. Who cares about the trickery when it's interesting to watch how this ridiculous scenario plays out😂
It would be more cursed if Germany was democratic and in the Allies lol. Maybe UK went communist and was in Comintern, or went nationalist with their own faction.
I do like the cursed idea of Germany and Italy choosing democracy and then having to defeat a fascist UK and France. Proper "ghosts of the past" moment there.
10:36 I played a Roman Empire game yesterday and when I invaded the United States they only had tank divisions. The AI had deleted the starting infantry divisions and the American front line was all medium tanks
How does england have only 10 Mil factories in 1943? Even the AI would have built more than that. It feels like someone used console commands on this to properly screw germany up.
9:58, I dont think this is true, because if Germany would have been AI controlled then they wouldnt have stuck with the same division templates and aircraft from 1936 but instead they would actually try and create newer ones. The navy also tells me that this isnt AI because those fleetz must have been taken from a peace deal and AI doesnt really do that.
lmao I have more than half achivements in HOI and today I learned you could change your land doctrine tree, I thought if you start with a country with one doctrine upgrade unlocked you can't go for another path
16:54 Cutting off the Soviets in the Netherlands by pushing towards Chinese occupied Southern Germany. Truly the most historical game.
Why is Chinese in south Germany?
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My guess is actually that this was a multiplayer game! The research and lack of spy tech suggests that Germany was a player (bad one). But the tanks and efficiency of the Soviet Union suggests this was another player! Hence the lack of Ironman save
Oh that makes total sense.
oh yeah that makes sense
I still don't understand how that Germany conquered Britain though
@@RandyMCPEmaster probably an early surprise invasion
@@RandyMCPEmaster I think they invaded the UK earlier and toke it's navy, that's why it's huge
imagine being a messenger having to tell stalin that the capitulated germans who were exiled in the UK managed to land in northern germany and from there curbstomped them from total victory into total defeat
I feel like its going to be more the messengerS cause he's gonna have them executed halfway through each sentence.
I think you mean future gulag laborers
Damn, Germany having to rely on Portugal to survive. We really live in the worst timeline
Live not leave
@@drew17210 leave
Portugal being based as always
@@alexccc8982 leave the little guy alone
@@салфеткибумажные-р3щ you can leave too don't forget to close the door
Steiner's counter attack really did saved germany
St-Steiner wasn't able to mobilise
Enough men
@@SLAVA_CCCP_1922 Das war ein Befehl!
@@JohnsonA1788DER ANGRIFF STEINER WAR EIN BEFEHL
You mean... D-Day?
Deutschland Day yes
D for Deutschland
Deutschland-tag
Sea lion-day
Not funny didn’t laugh
At 1:03 i felt my heart sink as he cancelled the *almost complete* atomic research
(ik it won't have saved the game but he used to let it finish in previous disaster saves AND there was a FREE research slot at the top)
me 2 brother i feel you
that was bad
I feel the pain
It is not like he loses the progress. When you "cancel" a research, the progress is saved. He could gone back and pick from the end.
@@TheDaniolip but he didn’t
Chinese troops manning the Maginot against the Kaiser, Yugoslavia ruling the Mediterranean, the Kaiser’s Royal Navy attempting to hold Portugal against the Soviet fleet, inverse D-Day in Denmark…what the hell happened in this run?
Sounds like a toddler made this
NGL Britain being what's left of Germany reminds me of a Blackadder joke about the British monarchy having German ancestors, German husband, and itself am half German
“I’M ENGLISH AS THE QUEEN VICTORIA!!”
“ahhh so your half german, your fathers german and you married a german?”
@@archusrtm6325 We may have started/escalated both world wars and lost, but at least we brought incest over the world
This is like a red alert campaign. Impressive stuff!
True, got the same feeling
lol you are right! XD
Honestly I think this one was a real disaster save. I doubt the last one you did with the Soviet Union having to defend Moscow was. Simply because it was setup like the AI.
But this feels fairly real. Like the person who was playing the Germans just had no idea what they were doing.
One example could be the agency: I, as probably many others, simply forget about its existence, so I end up with a couple of upgrades and nothing else
@@tuluppampam Actually the agency was the thing that convinced me. That and the lack of tank research.
AI sucks at organizing. But will never forget about tank research and the agency.
I genuinely believe this player just really, really sucked. Which is fine and understandable. Even I, at 800 hours in, am still trying to beat the Soviet Union as Fascist Germany in historical.
@@liaratsoni8556 someone else suggested that both the Soviet and Germany were both players, and Germany just got overwhelmed by the Soviet player.
@@liaratsoni8556 You don't need tanks at all in SP, maybe just some trash lights for spacemarines
@@sejozwak Okay. Can you please tell me then what exactly my spacemarine template should look like? I did a 14/4 with 2 battalions of medium tanks. 48 of these space marines divisions. And then I invaded the Soviet Union and got massacred.
I think that he actually played for germany because even AI changes their templates. And you started with basic infantry and light tanks
He probably did it on purpose as a joke.
AI cannot modify existing templates. They just create new ones. Many, many lag inducing new ones.
they are the default templates from 1936 when you first start@@AmraithNR. AI templates are like slamming your genitals in the car door
This is an incredible example of the kind of shennagins that happen in multiplayer... or console commands, one of the two. At any rate still a fun save to watch and to play. 6/10 for the save, 10/10 for the video.
My bro got pushed back so hard his german empire is not even in Germany 💀
Can't be a Society human player start because historical focuses were on and Germany went "Oppose Moustache Man."
One thing that could be interesting for Hoi4 in general and especially for disaster saves would be if Hoi4 had a tool similar to Eu4 where you can playback the game.
So kind of Portugal to keep the Central Powers warm for you.
In the whole disaster save he didn’t have motorised supply , this bothered me soooo much
He was using Motorized divisions so I assume he was saving them for the divisions. Stupid idea but when you’re desperate 🤷♂️
Imagine having driven the germans to the british isles, with only portugal left as an enemy, and then the germans pull off this shit
I really loved the Biography of von Lettow-Vorbeck. It was really interesting and fascinating to get some insight into the times of the Kaiserreich and it's militaristic society, as well as the wars and his take on his time in Africa. I recommend it to anyone.
Definitely a recommendation to read the book by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. It‘s called „Heia Safari“ in which he tells about his experience as leading General in German East Africa. Great to actually hear how they managed to hold out the entire World War I without capitulating against so many troops just by using guerilla tactics. The finest guerilla tactics you ever have seen. Truly a book that is worth to read
I love turning on subtitles and watching them try to understand the german words. For example:
1:17
"Oh actually, this is on the facts, okay."
0:19 Dang Germany got Exiled to The United Kingdom.
What a hideous punishment 😔
My theory how it got this bad is the following: SP Game Germany: Germany did his thing, killing the British, then went AFK for a year comes back to being completely overrun by the soviets, declaring on him.
No, because Belgium was neutral
A USSR never builds Medium Tanks so I assume there was a Germany and USSR player at least
As a German i sure hope this'll stay a fictional scenario.
I see how the tables have turned, German now as a naval power on an island Vs allies who have a big landforce.
waiting for the Plan Z run, trying to beat all britain forces only with naval invasions and PlanZ ships (Historicaly ships)
The scariest part of this whole scenario was when you had to move all your troops to Norwich, I felt so sorry for them there's like, literally nothing to do in Norwich
I created a (satirical) Reverse Sealion scenario like fifteen years ago something. Basically I got tired I hearing about Germany invading Britain that I wanted to have Britain invade Europe for once. Afterward, somebody else came along, asked if he could use my idea and then wrote something a lot more serious. He did such a good job I suggested he should turn it into a book.
Although its 100% a save troll
Still a fun little scenario
What you don't need port guards? That's new! Must be nice to have the British Fleet.
We rule the seas! And I had to take the gamble to have troops available
I've been playing tis game for like 2weeks and it blows my mind how good you are (and other people are)!
You might as well use the armor and breakthrough of that huge stockpile of light tanks and design an extra soft attack light tank and then upgrade the stockpile.
I bet this guy didn’t have the dlc, which is why those planes were basic and the spy network wasn’t upgraded
nah, then he'd have no planes researched when turning on the dlc
I hate how the new peace conference system often will often leave something left over
I guess the devs never considered what would happen when 2 sides are demanding territory and neither can afford it all. They should add a sort of "unify" war goal that bypasses the truce and guarantees so I don't have to see a random patchy USSR in the middle of my Russian puppet.
Full German moment at 22:16 😂
Man i really wanted to know the lost count on soviets after those huge encirclements but still it was a really fun disaster game to watch thank you so much
Damn that's a very impressive starting state you got this save in.
Jesus how they gonna explain this in the text books?
i don't think they could have switched to Germany to send it in because it had historical focuses on and Germany went monarchy
Always makes me think: "How you can suck this bad that u fail & and need youtuber to help u win?"
This looks like someone's like third ever game, wow.
tbh, this starting situation alone smells like this save is a troll save. I am sure that you'll be able to restore the Kaiserreich, but still, this is very sus. I'd almost recommend a rule that future saves have to be ironman. Not that it's impossible to fudge an ironman save, but still.
Sus as it was, the premise was so interesting I had to try
I mean, troll save or not, it was still a very interesting scenario so why not do it? Who cares if it’s “legit” or not? It’s entertaining
@@legitplayin6977 Well said
i mean it depends on how badly they mess it up. if its savable it doesnt matter who they were playing as if it can be saved
@@Bitt3rSteel also how he even manage to get a hell ass big navy?
"Finish up with Britain then deal with the soviet" meme vibes lmao
This is a case of "How did you do literally everything wrong?"
7:14 correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to put taskforces on both strikeforce and patrol? Patrol taskforces find the enemy and then the strikeforce taskforce sails out to engage the enemy, or at least that's what my understanding of how the navy is supposed to work.
Yep thats how it works. Learned that the hard way
The thing is that strike force doesnt move the ships(no fuel comsumption) but gives naval superiority
It also works if submarines find ships whike raiding
The strike force gives naval dominance without costing fuel. It will also Sally out to defend submarines and convoys caught in combat.
@@Bitt3rSteel would have been useful at 20:25, I think.
Reminds me of the Canadian situation in kaiserreich
You are giving me the inspiration to go play HOI4 with the Soviet Union untill 2 in the night,even though i have to go to school as early as 7:10
Feels like a multiplayer game that the Soviet player partial surrendered in a previous war
The mental image of being re-assigned from your top secret nuclear research to working on bettering an anti-aircraft gun is amazing.
Great to see a disaster save again, keep it up man.
Apx. 20:35 you can deal with a problem fleet like that by setting naval bombers to port strike and/or naval attack dependingon the situation. The AI will move the fleet to get away from the planes.
10:16 that actually sounds like a really fun challenge
as the player, you push a major to the brink of defeat, but then switch over to them to see if you can win it from the AI's end
It can't be a case of the player playing as the Soviets and asking you to play as Germany because historical focuses were on, and you were playing as the Kaiser and not as the mustache man
i saw this on reddit a while back and thought it looked in interesting. I thought that you kinda gave up on this since its been a while, but Im glad you did it.
I also did this save as well, it was pretty fun, I did the same spot you did for my second naval invasion, the soviets technically won the war but I still kept my land and was able to get enough points to come back from being capped
"Bleed the soviet of manpower". You presume limits to my reserves... There are none.
22:16 Bro really started roleplaying germany, YAAA WE MADE IT TO INNSBRUCK!
This is amazing timing for the video to get recommended, I just had this situation in my save because I attacked the soviets too late and they wiped me out, I had a little more time with Italy because they did a civil war and somehow survived- but eventually they capitulated too soon and I failed anyway. I managed to cause a coup in the USA as they were the only people I needed to capitulate to win one of the wars I think, but they didn't capitulate in time for me to win
good video though, :)
Bitt3rsteel would have a heart attack seeing my logistics
Opening that armour research screen made me actually wince
A human played Germany in this game, almost 100% sure - Germany is non-aligned and Historical AI focuses is on
Lmaooooo 😆😆😆 15:24 was the best part deadass
My guy this video has been out for 4 mins
10:09 i doubt that the player was playing the soviets. If you pause it at just the right moment here. you can see the soviet tank template. It includes medium tanks, light tanks, motorised. shovel support and armoured car support. its just the soviet tank division, not a light tank division and a medium tank division, just looks like multiple mediums. no player that i know even uses light tanks and medium tanks in the same template, let alone also using armoured car support. maybe the soviets just switched the template to an ai made template tho
What is that orange factory notification at the top? I've never seen that in my 1000 hours of HOI4 lmao.
Nice video as always man, keep it up!
It’s when someone is buying your license but doesn’t have the civs to pay up (I think)
How was Wilhelm II still alive in 1943?
Edit: even until '44 jeez
quite a conundrum this game is. On one side its amazing that a player is able to make a glorious comback like this, but on the other hand its depressing the AI can't leverage its overwhelming advantage.
I believe that was called D Day
I believe the dude that made this save made everything intentional including using console commands to make your life hell.
18:54 love the Simpsons reference
It'd be nice if there was a way to check previous commands and whatnot so you could see if there was trickery going on.
Trickery or not. Still interesting to watch this scenario. Who cares about the trickery when it's interesting to watch how this ridiculous scenario plays out😂
@@theBEASTisJJ you the guy who made the save lmao? sounds like cope
@@slashgigawon bro what
@@theBEASTisJJ cope
@sejozwak What? You guys are weird
I am pretty sure this is the most cursed disaster save I have seen :D
It would be more cursed if Germany was democratic and in the Allies lol. Maybe UK went communist and was in Comintern, or went nationalist with their own faction.
@@kiriseraph9674 calm down satan
@@almighty9188🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I do like the cursed idea of Germany and Italy choosing democracy and then having to defeat a fascist UK and France. Proper "ghosts of the past" moment there.
10:50 bro casually threw in a rise of nations meme and didn't think we'd notice ☠
If you know there is a fleet then send a task force directly that isn't assigned a task or set it's task to patrol the region
Imperial German occupation forces in Britain attempted to retake Germany from Soviet occupation by launching Operation: Oberherr.
Had to set an alarm for those 7am uploads
Just for you, bb
This feels like when the teacher grades your test infront of you and completely ROASTS you.
10:36 I played a Roman Empire game yesterday and when I invaded the United States they only had tank divisions. The AI had deleted the starting infantry divisions and the American front line was all medium tanks
what does that have to do with 10:36?
I'm pretty sure this man could beat the entire world as Luxemburg.
your game runs faster on 4 speed than mine does on 5 speed in the lategame lmao
How does england have only 10 Mil factories in 1943? Even the AI would have built more than that. It feels like someone used console commands on this to properly screw germany up.
7:30 you sounded like that one guy who said EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Even if AI would play Germany, it would have changed the templates. This Germany had 1942 still the starting Templates, so must be played by a player.
Love your disaster saves, bitter :)
I’d really like to see the multiplayer game that led up to this
Behold, Operation Landpug
Very good episode! I really enjoyed this one
When I look at this map I think of that Tales from the Crypt meme. It fits so well with that is so wrong with this map.
Maybe he didn't have the spy dlc
9:58, I dont think this is true, because if Germany would have been AI controlled then they wouldnt have stuck with the same division templates and aircraft from 1936 but instead they would actually try and create newer ones. The navy also tells me that this isnt AI because those fleetz must have been taken from a peace deal and AI doesnt really do that.
I'm guessing this was a starting equipment&division challenge run.
cons: The enemy is occupying all your territory
pros: The enemy is occupying all your territory
POV: Steiner counter attacked
We need more ww1 redux. They are reaaaaaally entertaining
Haha, what a unique disaster save!
12:40 BitterSteel PMC
Great vid , keep it up!
The Magician strikes again. Nice encirclements.
Congrats you managed to get the save file
lmao I have more than half achivements in HOI and today I learned you could change your land doctrine tree, I thought if you start with a country with one doctrine upgrade unlocked you can't go for another path
🤦♂️
HOW!?