@@christopherscott1336 unironically yes. Democracies have only seen inflation and stagnation and are restricting the rights of citizens more than monarchies ever did
oh boy, 2/3s of this year have already passed and youre still climbing out of the C countries cant wait til 2069 when you finally finish this series off
Fun fact for when you get to Ethiopia, even in the base game, if Ethiopia drives Italy out of east Africa, Ethiopia gets an event where they can either peace Italy and gain cores on italian east Africa, or they can choose to remain at war with Italy
Despite the pain, it is interesting to me seeing you take small nations that I’d probably just get killed and somehow you build them up. Keep up the good work!
Fun fact: honduras actually has a very in depth focus tree in road to 56 which is unironically a bit of fun! You can go full banana republic, you can go the historical route (and shittiest one), you can become an exiled kingdom of spain and reinvade spain and you can also go communist and basically invade everything from mexico to argentina
ISP: I didn't want to play as Costa Rica in any mod to make the first Central American gameplay the most painful. Me: Zentralamerika Reich? You literally have Costa Rica form German Central America in Kaiserredux
I wasn't even watching the video, just had it on my second monitor as I worked on my project. And then "Costa Rica looks like a shrunk down Mexico", I just burst out laughing, not because I'm insane or anything (or maybe I am), but because my geography brain knew exactly the shapes of both from memory that I didn't even need a visual aid of the video.
Fun fact about Costa Rica, there almost made it to the semi Final of the 2014 FIFA World cup, but lost in the quarter final after penaltys from the Netherlands.
As far as I know, Costa Rica has no standing army. Actually visited once, beautiful place with friendly people. But yeah, not exactly on the top of the geopolitical importance list.
1:05 Fun facts about Costa Rica? Well...at one point they were ruled by a military junta, which eventually stepped down, and they abolished their armed forces after the fact. You may wonder, how would they react if they’re invaded then? Their constitution basically says “trust the US to invoke the Monroe Doctrine.”
@@theleader4620 Maybe a bit of both. On a related note, this particular aspect of Costa Rica was central to the plot of a video game: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The country was invaded by mercenaries (read: a CIA Special Operations Group in all but name) operating out of Samoza-run Nicaragua in 1973, prompting the usual Cold War proxy war fuckery to kick off when a KGB agent contracts Big Boss to send in his own PMC, Militaires Sans Frontiers, to kick them out, setting in motion the events that, by the 1990s in-universe, led to the creation of Outer Heaven (the mercenary state from the original Metal Gear).
I have a cool fact about Costa Rica My sister travelled there for a bit, and she brought powdered milk, because normal milk would expire, and she got stopped by the police because they thought it was cocaine
Yo, you finally played Costa Rica! Hello from one of what probably are like 3 Costa Rican subscribers! Fun fact, as a US ally, we actually declared war on Japan after pearl harbor the day before the USA did its own declaration of war
This makes me nostalgic for DDRJake's first HOI4 series, where he played as El Salvador, tore through South America like a starving panther through a tour bus, got bogged down in brutal guerilla warfare in Paraguay, and then lost because he forgot to garrison his capital.
Me and a friend Couped the U.S. as Fascist Brazil and Mexico. We entered the war, won it for the Silver Legion, and formed a faction with Fascist America.
i love how europe's borders get worse and worse throughout the entire video, but belgium is just in the middle of it all with the exact same borders the entire time
I thought he was going to say El Salvador, which actually used to be the best nation in HOI4 since they started out with 20 entire divisions for some reason.
I liked all the observations he made. It was informative. Soldiers have shadows (not vampires check), Chicken drum stick plus Costa Rica is Mexico shrunken down. Do you think Central American generals are this miserable whenever they have to fight a war in their countries? Really, I have to fight in this country? God, why did I join the Costa Rican military?
I played Honduras in Road to 56 and did basically the same thing but spent 3 ingame years at war with Columbia while in a stalemate. The only thing that ended the war was a coup
Can't wait till 2040 when my kids will be watching you play Yemen
A viewer of ISP that ends up having children?
Nah, that's just not possible.
If I looked over my sons shoulder and saw him watching ISP, I would simply say, "that's my boy!"
@@Bosleyrocks14 b-o-y is a strange way to spell disappointment.
WW3 Mapping in HOI4 Style
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The red hawk Is trying to play A-Z *in EU4*
“I’m being held hostage by my own free will” is my new favourite sentence.
allso hidras philosophy in the winter soldier
I might just order myself a shirt with this sentence printed on it
ISP has been forced to play tiny nations in hoi4 for so long that he developed stockholm syndrome
Virgin: Plays as big country with detailed focus tree and loses
Chad: Plays as small country with generic focus tree and wins!
@@pedroperez266 Except theyre both virgins because they play hoi4
Trick question. It's Italy
lmao
@Rick Astley 🅥 you didn’t even Rick roll me, I am utterly disappointed.
Why do you appear so quickly everywhere
@Rick Astley 🅥 Lmao the account was created 3 hours ago
The only thing more useless than Italy is this emoji 👾
Like half of y'all reading this probably can't even see it.
>Disembarked in Murmansk, Russia
>"We made it to Finland"
Based and rightful clay
@@HappyCappy. Not sure I want to believe someone called "Ur nans Scrotum"
What are you talking about? Murmansk always has been Finnish...right?
@@InfiniteDeckhand Not since the end of Finnish-Korean Hyperwar
@@TempestLM you cant mean the 2077 invasion of Finland by korean kpop stans right?
You know it's a rough waiting game when it's 4 minutes into the video and it's already 1939
Ayyyyyy it's MDB
You should do HOI4 content like this
@@killerkirbydude ouch he left you hanging he prob doesn’t want to torture himself
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Didn’t expect to see Big League MDB here
@@kongism But I have like, 100+ HoI4 videos
There's a point where ISPs mental anguish is no longer ironic... I think it became unironic years ago.
ISP actually miserable playing HOI4 for 5 years? Nonsense
It’s been unironic from the start
“I’m an emotionally barren, broken man whose only joy in life comes from playing map games; I have nothing!”
WW3 Mapping in HOI4 Style
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@@mushvigabbasov3951 woah it's bismarck
truly do hope you run road to 56 when you get to Honduras, their fascist path is ridiculous and amazing in it
All of the paths other then democracy are honestly
@@jackiereed1296 just like in real life. Democracy is what happens when you give participation trophies in repuvlicas
@@zm1786 Right because the non-democratic nations that exist today are so much better to live in.
Why do you know this
@@christopherscott1336 unironically yes. Democracies have only seen inflation and stagnation and are restricting the rights of citizens more than monarchies ever did
Can’t wait till he does A-Z in Kaiserreich
One million African warlords
Or A-Z with every ruler in CK
That will probably be quite nice actually given how many nations have actual content
Can confirm, minor nations are sick in kaiserreich
oh boy, 2/3s of this year have already passed and youre still climbing out of the C countries
cant wait til 2069 when you finally finish this series off
I mean there’s not as many g or y countries as a b or c countries so
Maybe hoi5 will be out by the time hes done
@@northerncricket5199 remember when we joked victoria 3 will come out before this ends?
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As a Costa Rican, I am very pleased with the 12mins of spotlight
Me too
I've unironically waited for this video for months just to see him react to the region
Same lol
Costa del Pueblan! xD
Me too
fun fact: costa rica doesn't have an army IRL
I khow
Metal Gear Solid thought me that
We did before 1948 so it's ok
However their national police force is better equipped than the army of their northern neighbor, Nicaragua.
@@waffleworshiper They do have tanks in Nicaragua
Now next subscriber goal will be all starting nations in Hoi3
You mean Hoi1?
By the time this is over he'll be able to play all the starting nations in HOI5
@@Tindog42656 I meant Hoi3 specifically since it's probably the worst one
@@watam8 Isp has stated that he would rather play HOI3 than HOI1.
@@TeeBar420 By the time this is over we'll have either real life WW3 or Stellaris.
You have to use Road to 56 as Honduras because you can go anarcho-capitalist or Banana Republic, it’s amazing
I swear if this channel of a man losing his mind playing map games gets a million subs it's going to be the greatest moment of the year.
'i'm being held hostage by my own free will' is an actual philosophy though lol
Fun fact for when you get to Ethiopia, even in the base game, if Ethiopia drives Italy out of east Africa, Ethiopia gets an event where they can either peace Italy and gain cores on italian east Africa, or they can choose to remain at war with Italy
That's new btw
@@CatnamedMittens it's not that new. I noticed it happened way back during the Man the Guns update
@@tromedlovdrolmai no
@@tromedlovdrolmai I thought it happened in the most recent patch notes mb
@@CatnamedMittens understandable, who the fuck plays Ethiopia
1:19 *As a Costa Rican, i'm not offended, you're damn right*
I cannot remember the last time ISP lost what’s it been 3 4 years? And to Italy. Amazing. Truly one for the ages.
Despite the pain, it is interesting to me seeing you take small nations that I’d probably just get killed and somehow you build them up. Keep up the good work!
There actually are only 4 horsemen, El Salvador is just a pony
“Better than Tommy’s Bhutan run”-IGN
"Why do you exist, Kurdistan?"
- Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey
-armenia, cossaks, assyria, Babylonia, Byzantium empire, ottomans, romans
@@rimmey_v Byzantium empire
@@yesatitsfinest rimmey already said romans
edit: realized the joke. p a i n
@@beefyblom Byzantium empire
@@beefyblom Byzantium empire
Fun fact: honduras actually has a very in depth focus tree in road to 56 which is unironically a bit of fun! You can go full banana republic, you can go the historical route (and shittiest one), you can become an exiled kingdom of spain and reinvade spain and you can also go communist and basically invade everything from mexico to argentina
In the Kaisereddux mod there's a path to transform Costa Rica into a German Kingdom
beautiful
*marimba music stops*
Isorrow, blink twice next video if you're being held hostage by your own free will
Sowiet ooniun 🤩
Fun fact about Costa Rica: It has a population of 4.5 million and one of the highest life expectancies in the world of 77 years.
Fun fact 2: it exists
Fun fact 3: Costa Rica has socialized healthcare
ISP: I didn't want to play as Costa Rica in any mod to make the first Central American gameplay the most painful.
Me: Zentralamerika Reich? You literally have Costa Rica form German Central America in Kaiserredux
I wasn't even watching the video, just had it on my second monitor as I worked on my project.
And then "Costa Rica looks like a shrunk down Mexico", I just burst out laughing, not because I'm insane or anything (or maybe I am), but because my geography brain knew exactly the shapes of both from memory that I didn't even need a visual aid of the video.
Ah, my country Costa Rica. Seems like he finally played it!
The way he just says D E A T H really makes me feel warm inside
"Help me, I´m being hostage by my own will." Is the best quote I´ve heard in a long time.
Does anyone notice the fact that the game basically devolved into a grudge mach between America and England?
This man is suffering and I love it... are we good people?
"are we the baddies?"
@@redxstudios2565 I know that reference
Fun fact about Costa Rica, there almost made it to the semi Final of the 2014 FIFA World cup, but lost in the quarter final after penaltys from the Netherlands.
As far as I know, Costa Rica has no standing army. Actually visited once, beautiful place with friendly people. But yeah, not exactly on the top of the geopolitical importance list.
1:05 Fun facts about Costa Rica? Well...at one point they were ruled by a military junta, which eventually stepped down, and they abolished their armed forces after the fact. You may wonder, how would they react if they’re invaded then? Their constitution basically says “trust the US to invoke the Monroe Doctrine.”
realy? i don't know if that is funny or scary
@@theleader4620 Maybe a bit of both.
On a related note, this particular aspect of Costa Rica was central to the plot of a video game: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The country was invaded by mercenaries (read: a CIA Special Operations Group in all but name) operating out of Samoza-run Nicaragua in 1973, prompting the usual Cold War proxy war fuckery to kick off when a KGB agent contracts Big Boss to send in his own PMC, Militaires Sans Frontiers, to kick them out, setting in motion the events that, by the 1990s in-universe, led to the creation of Outer Heaven (the mercenary state from the original Metal Gear).
I have a cool fact about Costa Rica
My sister travelled there for a bit, and she brought powdered milk, because normal milk would expire, and she got stopped by the police because they thought it was cocaine
Yo, you finally played Costa Rica! Hello from one of what probably are like 3 Costa Rican subscribers!
Fun fact, as a US ally, we actually declared war on Japan after pearl harbor the day before the USA did its own declaration of war
Can't wait for the sequel Ck3 A to Z, that should last the rest of human existence
IN BOTH START DATES!
Besides the already mentioned no army thing, the other fact I know is that the (fictional) Jurassic Park island is off the coast of Costa Rica.
Oh yeah Cocos island
We don't have any dinosaurs there but we have the Cocos finch and the Cocos cuckoo
“I am being held hostage by my own free will”
Aren’t we all?
Can’t believe I’ve been here since the beginning of A2Z. My grandkids will never know the joy of realizing Isorrow uploaded a new A2Z today
Yes they will.
This makes me nostalgic for DDRJake's first HOI4 series, where he played as El Salvador, tore through South America like a starving panther through a tour bus, got bogged down in brutal guerilla warfare in Paraguay, and then lost because he forgot to garrison his capital.
Remember: every nation can coup even the strongest powers
No a single one of my supported rebels has ever won a civil war
@@emib6599 I tried couping USA as fascist Turkey so that I wouldn't have to naval invade but it didn't work out
Me and a friend Couped the U.S. as Fascist Brazil and Mexico. We entered the war, won it for the Silver Legion, and formed a faction with Fascist America.
I'm hoping that when ISP gets to the _Mongols_ my mod will be done enough for him to play Mongolia in it
Always a good day whenever ISP releases a new video
Yep 💯
i love how europe's borders get worse and worse throughout the entire video, but belgium is just in the middle of it all with the exact same borders the entire time
It's the Belgian Neutrality Actually Works focus tree
Because #BelgianLivesMatter
I can feel the pain in his voice, and I love it
This is the only time I’ve been remotely happy that the US is guaranteeing a Central American country.
At 690K you have to do a mega-campaign as Dahomey
Can't wait to see him play Tanna Tuva
In this game, Britain sure did rule the waves
Feeling the Pain already
I thought he was going to say El Salvador, which actually used to be the best nation in HOI4 since they started out with 20 entire divisions for some reason.
Cool fact: Coasta Rica is the only central american nation that doesn't have a military.
Weird, after 1982 argentina is the only south american country to not have a navy.
@@Daeyae That navy is probably just busy hiding all the german U-boots that arrived in 1945.
They dont need to, because the US will protect them
Panama: are u dumb son
Panama doesn't have one either
I liked all the observations he made. It was informative. Soldiers have shadows (not vampires check), Chicken drum stick plus Costa Rica is Mexico shrunken down.
Do you think Central American generals are this miserable whenever they have to fight a war in their countries? Really, I have to fight in this country? God, why did I join the Costa Rican military?
We don’t have a military
i have never been this pumped about a country since i discovered moldova existed
iirc RT56 gives Honduras or Nicaragua an ancap focus tree, could be a good meme.
I needed this today have just sucked
Just think eventually you'll play germany
Fun Fact: Costa Rica has not had an army since WW2.
At least you get to avoid playing the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.
It's the year 2076, ISP has official played all the starting nations
One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates🎈
k man
hoi4 armoured car only when
soon I hope
0:24 Hello from 738K :)
I’m genuinely excited for Honduras
Cant wait till next year when ISP is stuck doing the Solomon Islands
Costa Rica has the Jurassic Park/World islands so yay?
And healthcare, we actually get to have that
When you play Honduras I recommend you play it in Road to 56. You can form a strange anarcho-capitalist society.
He gets to e elsalvador starring mancing
Can’t wait for XX20 where my descendants will watch you play zimbabwae
is it just me or does the Hoi4A2Z look like what google recommends you as a secure password?
remember the one video where costa rica was called costa potente
That was a personal attack at the end ISP how did you know I was putting off doing my homework.
That intro is silly ISP, your free will is only the universe and your neurons using you as a sock puppet to say that.
Had you played Kaiserreich like a real man, you'd have had a focus tree.
Costa rica is fun in kaiserredux. I know you didn't care but i said it anyway
ISP: plays Costa Rica
Me: me who’s in Costa Rica for vacation 😮
How can he be held hostage by his free will when he was never free
“They did not reinforce. Epic win”
Stalin remarking on the Soviet victory at Stalingrad
By the time isorrow gets near the end of the series he be a drooling vegetable
I played Honduras in Road to 56 and did basically the same thing but spent 3 ingame years at war with Columbia while in a stalemate. The only thing that ended the war was a coup
This is a nice 1984 fanfic Isorrow
I recently binged Code Geass, and boy, if "Britain now just owns the entire world" isn't just so damn fitting.
Britannia owns the world but doesn't own Britain in Code Geass
@@hussey4826 Bro, I was SO confused when I found that out. Although by the end, Britannia does own everything.
“Mexico shrunk in the wash” 😂😂😂😂😂
God can’t wait for 2029 Zimbabwe
Can't wait 2 more years for Yugoslavia gameplay
I didn't think I would see my country here!!! It feels like Christmas
That was pretty epic ISP
Fun fact: Costa Rica abolish their army since 1948 because a civil war, only to restablish a volunteer army 4 years later for another civil war
do my homework? it's summer and i'm an adult
Fun fact, costa rica and panama have disputed territory in the border despite none of them having an army.
Watching this without any volume is a whole experience, let me tell you. Especially considering I somehow skipped 4 minutes of it. Highly recommend.
I'm sure my dead body 6 feet underground will enjoy the final episode of this series.
ISP can only play Costa Rica until 1948 then they are going to dissolve their army
Fermin Montes is comes from the future
He sounds genuinely depressed.
HOW MANY TIMES WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON! YOU NEVER HAD A MIND TO LOSE! lol
Love these videos. Glad you make them. Thx