CHALLENGE!! As Chile, annex every provence that touches the Pacific Ocean. Also, you can only annex tiles touching the Pacific Ocean so any other provinces you conquer have to be satellited or puppeted. :)
Me when i want to join the allies Hoi4: No you can't do that! You need to be 30% democratic to join the allies! Ai when they want to join the allies Hoi4: Fwiendshwip 🥴
@@Ziddel Not if you play allied minor that focuses on something specific and can hold off recruiting divisions till 1939. Also you can do that as Soviets or USA till 1940 and still have enough time to recruit enough divisions before the war.
Sorry man, it's for VIPs and organizations only Sources: MERICS China’s social credit system is actually quite boring A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses, says Vincent Brussee. Foreign Policy China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.
@@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870 Doesn't stop it from being promoted everywhere I go and being accepted as a fact, last time I checked it was cold war 2 electric boogaloo is now and propaganda is a good part of the effort
I thought in China in some cities there was like one camera for 4/5 people. You also have to show your face to a camera to get toilet paper in public bathrooms and if you jaywalk your face is plastered on a screen above the street and a cop comes over and tickets you. Sounds pretty screwed up to me. Wouldn't surprise me if they were spying on everyone.
Challenge - As the USSR, use only Katyusha (motorized rocket artillery) divisions. Your divisions must have at least 25% rocket artillery, and you can only use motorized rocket artillery and motorized infantry. If you REALLY want to do this though, your divisions should be 100% rocket artillery.
I used infantry only with Greece for the majority of my latest Ironman save. I ended up in an unholy alliance with German Empire and Russia, and after a few smaller wars I marched my 500k Greeks to China where they then beat the snot out of China and Japan. It was after 1945 by the time I started to filter in mechanized infantry and armoured divisions, or really build an airforce! The game ended with Greece 4th on score (I don't like the scoring method, I was vastly the largest power in terms of industry, navy, and land, I just had my navy consolidated into fewer, larger fleets and hadn't gathered quite so much air superiority). I had lost just over 1 million men, and killed over 20 million from France, GB, China and Japan (a second time) and the USA. That save eventually made me realise how powerful intensive strategic bombing can be to demolish your opponents supply lines, it's the main way I was able to power through the USA. By far my favourite Ironman game yet. My one annoyance was not being able to declare war on Bulgaria at any stage 😥
You think it's laggy at 323 divisions in 1940 try playing hoi4 in 1945 when Germany the soviets and USA All have 1k divisions each while on a laptop that can barely run the game at 60 fps
@@PadaV4 true its so bad I think nukes should be buffed and divs without any, generals should have big penalty's to div org def an attack so late game stops being frustrating pray your divisions can push and 999k large air force.
"Just spam infantry" is actually a very viable USSR strategy. I know I've done it quite a few times. Infantry gives you a lot of HP to soak through, the USSR can pump out a ton of them compared to more standard mixed tactics. You won't get the epic encirclements or something but I found it very easy to just grind down the Axis offense and basically Battleplan my way to counter attacks via it. It lacks the issues that say, the All Heavy Tonk challenge did (Lacking HP and such).
Mass infantry is incredibly effective. If you can get green air or throw on enough AA to get rid of the enemy air superiority penalty. All you need is to build 1 army group of 14/4s. And blobs of bodies defend while you push with the shock troops.
I played almost the same kinda game yesterday, 3 full army groups with 40widths with inf, 2 aa, 2 at and 2 arty + support eq. They never passed the Daugava and Dnieper rivers(or my 10lvl forts at Vitebsk); however the Italians naval invaded from Bulgaria, and held Stalingrad for 2 weeks. Worked like a charm!
Feedback Gaming said before (it could have changed) that in Singleplayer there's pretty much no use in making AT Guns, just add support AA to your divisions and you will be fine against the AI's incompetent armor. (Yes, AA has Piercing. Because IRL we learned that AA guns can be surprisingly good against armor. Think of the Flak 88. Or the Flakpanzer 1 and Panzer II using 2 different variants of the same 20mm autocannon.)
I started the video and thought "Man, seems like Alex had a bit too much coffee today." Turns out it was still on 1.25 speed from the timelapse I was watching previously.
This human wall strategy will be fun if you do the following: 1. modify the tactics file, find guerilla tactics and set the factor to 400. 2. enter the game, learn a land doctrine that gives you guerilla tactics. 3. have divisions with infantries and aa support, no artillery or anti tank needed. You can hold the line forever even with guns only.
in addition, if you have the special trait that reduces enemy air support by 50%, you don't even need air force. You can make a video that uses infantry only, hold the line for 3 years without losing any land tiles, and win the game.
I just love your hoi4 videos, especially your challenge Videos! I will never get tired of your entertaining and I even enjoy your style of advertising Things like manscaped
Alex, if you had built level 3 or 4 land forts on your land border with Germany, then set the garrison to hold forts, every division you made would only sit in the forts along whatever border you built forts.
the division experience penalty for converting troops means you'll only really be losing 16% or so, so what people started doing these days, is training troops with out of date equipment, on a division template with no artillery for instance, then converting to another division template only after they hit level 3, which does knock them back down to level 2, but now going from that point to get to 3 ISN'T nearly as far to go. so far fewer equipment is lost through this method. you'll need to remember they still lose equipment using this method, but the trick is, you'd be using up far less equipment through training this way.
Rambler drinking game. Every time Rambler exclaims in surprise take a drink, says come on mate drink,, says are you having a giraffe drain drink, Rambler says I'm gonna play as russia, drink water.. your gonna need it lol
When you play enough HOI4, you eventually grow a moustache. After reaching 2,000 hours, I now have a Kaiser Wilhelm moustache. Alex appears to be channeling Hirohito in this episode, or a young Stalin?
Challenge that I haven't seen a single person attempt. As Turkey, defeat the soviet union when the montreau convention focus is denied. Montreau convention must be your first focus.
As Germany only use tanks( rules: can use support division, navy and air force stay same, since you can’t get naval invasion stuff for tanks take awhile you can use only paratroopers and marines, division’s from other countries is allowed, motorized and mechanized divisions are not allowed.)
putting strongholds behind the river with infanterie divisions did help me against the germans as i played with the soviets. In the end though the allies attacked and utterly destroyed everything with their overpowered airforce and a-bombs. No chance at all^^
An idea for a video. I released a challenge in My Road to 56 a long time ago to just form Prussia as Danzig. You can't use any other mods except the italy companion mod, and ironman mode ofc.
Only naval and air as US. (it actually works really well, just build subs, carriers, heavy fighters and strat bombers and your allies actually do the rest)
Challenge, the micro-pro challenge, you can't use battleplans or anything, you can only personally order troops to attack, everything is allowed as long as it's not using the battleplans hope it won't be too much of a hassle if you do it cause of the hole thing with your wrist or whatever it was that made you not do it in the start
CHALLENGE!! As Chile, annex every provence that touches the Pacific Ocean. Also, you can only annex tiles touching the Pacific Ocean so any other provinces you conquer have to be satellited or puppeted. :)
That just sounds painful, how long do you think until Alex does it
Probably 2 months?
@@elijahduce5323 CHALLANGE!! ANNEX THE WORLD, as new zeeland
@@bobmob5137 oh that's easy
I don’t think Provence touches the Pacific Ocean at all
Me when i want to join the allies
Hoi4: No you can't do that! You need to be 30% democratic to join the allies!
Ai when they want to join the allies
Hoi4: Fwiendshwip 🥴
True
Also players: heheh imperialism go brr
1 Division trick being removed in like 2019
Alex (a.k.a. Sigma Alpha Male) in 2021: I ThINk TheY BaNnEd iT
1 div training does still work. It just scales slowly for about 1,5 years till it gives full experience.
I know this is evil mentioning another TH-camr, but check our feedback video on his version on getting xp.
@@Ziddel Not if you play allied minor that focuses on something specific and can hold off recruiting divisions till 1939. Also you can do that as Soviets or USA till 1940 and still have enough time to recruit enough divisions before the war.
24:55
Human wall tactic on work:
The Turkish tank division encirclement near Batman shall never be forgotten
Batman sounds familiar...
It went to French Syria or Iraq
1 division training strat doesn't work anymore, you have to merge them to full equipment and manpower and then excercize whatever's left
I was a bit confused when I saw "Spooky's Castle" as a capital. The mod explains it
This is just what it looks like when I play the soviets just with a some tank or mech deivisions
Especially with the Skelly Empire
"Human wall strategy" +30000000 social credit points
Sorry man, it's for VIPs and organizations only
Sources:
MERICS
China’s social credit system is actually quite boring
A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses, says Vincent Brussee.
Foreign Policy
China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real
Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.
@@geemcspankinson It's just a meme, calm down
@@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870
Doesn't stop it from being promoted everywhere I go and being accepted as a fact, last time I checked it was cold war 2 electric boogaloo is now and propaganda is a good part of the effort
@@geemcspankinson I agree, it's militarist fearmongering propaganda, but the memes are too funny
I thought in China in some cities there was like one camera for 4/5 people. You also have to show your face to a camera to get toilet paper in public bathrooms and if you jaywalk your face is plastered on a screen above the street and a cop comes over and tickets you. Sounds pretty screwed up to me. Wouldn't surprise me if they were spying on everyone.
Growing a stache to cosplay Stalin is really going the extra mile.
He kinda looks more like mosely
@@sombertownds149 leader of bri’ish union of gamers
@@sombertownds149 true
10:23 "do you even know who you're dealing with!?" Finland during the winter War: I don't even know who you are!
THE ART CARDS ARE SOLD OUT. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Nice
no thanks
Sussy cult of Chonk.
We need a rambler bobble head :-)
Art card purchased! I can now say I have offical supported the rambler!
A ton of HOI4 here and also some age of empires on Atomic Nerd? Everything is coming up Rambler right now. Great content.
Well, you DEFINITELY need to redo this when No Step Back is out
this is actually, how you play meta soviet in most mods, except that you have to build air, tanks and not use "defending task" only micro
Soldier Rain Challenge: *Only paratroopers when attacking.*
Challenge - As the USSR, use only Katyusha (motorized rocket artillery) divisions. Your divisions must have at least 25% rocket artillery, and you can only use motorized rocket artillery and motorized infantry. If you REALLY want to do this though, your divisions should be 100% rocket artillery.
I tried it one time, it's like artilery only just pain and suffering, please Alex do katyusha only
I like how the skelly empire is just there
I used infantry only with Greece for the majority of my latest Ironman save. I ended up in an unholy alliance with German Empire and Russia, and after a few smaller wars I marched my 500k Greeks to China where they then beat the snot out of China and Japan. It was after 1945 by the time I started to filter in mechanized infantry and armoured divisions, or really build an airforce!
The game ended with Greece 4th on score (I don't like the scoring method, I was vastly the largest power in terms of industry, navy, and land, I just had my navy consolidated into fewer, larger fleets and hadn't gathered quite so much air superiority). I had lost just over 1 million men, and killed over 20 million from France, GB, China and Japan (a second time) and the USA. That save eventually made me realise how powerful intensive strategic bombing can be to demolish your opponents supply lines, it's the main way I was able to power through the USA.
By far my favourite Ironman game yet. My one annoyance was not being able to declare war on Bulgaria at any stage 😥
You think it's laggy at 323 divisions in 1940 try playing hoi4 in 1945 when Germany the soviets and USA All have 1k divisions each while on a laptop that can barely run the game at 60 fps
Late game is just cancer. I wish they at least tried to optimize it a bit.
@@PadaV4 true its so bad I think nukes should be buffed and divs without any, generals should have big penalty's to div org def an attack so late game stops being frustrating pray your divisions can push and 999k large air force.
Me with a old i3, 🥶🥶
"Just spam infantry" is actually a very viable USSR strategy. I know I've done it quite a few times. Infantry gives you a lot of HP to soak through, the USSR can pump out a ton of them compared to more standard mixed tactics. You won't get the epic encirclements or something but I found it very easy to just grind down the Axis offense and basically Battleplan my way to counter attacks via it.
It lacks the issues that say, the All Heavy Tonk challenge did (Lacking HP and such).
Granted this is made a little more difficult when you declare war on the allies for no good reason. xD
Mass infantry is incredibly effective. If you can get green air or throw on enough AA to get rid of the enemy air superiority penalty. All you need is to build 1 army group of 14/4s. And blobs of bodies defend while you push with the shock troops.
thats more or less what i did, and germany had no chance. Infantry with shovels and anti tank support and arty support was my best division.
I would like a Irish Monarchist.
Where you join the axis, as a twist, free the states of scottland and Wales.
Soon that mustache will make Léon Blum proud
Just ordered an art card
Do the German automotor industry challenge, motorized and armored cars only
I played almost the same kinda game yesterday, 3 full army groups with 40widths with inf, 2 aa, 2 at and 2 arty + support eq. They never passed the Daugava and Dnieper rivers(or my 10lvl forts at Vitebsk); however the Italians naval invaded from Bulgaria, and held Stalingrad for 2 weeks. Worked like a charm!
That mustache is so Freddie Mercury.
Rambler's Mustache November
28:36 "How is Greece THIS competent" - Benito Mussolini
Proceeds to tag switch to Greece and delete the division
With Alex the ramblers transformation now complete he has become alex mosley because of his mustache
Please don't compare me to a fascist, Thanks!
YESSSSS THE STACHE IS BACK!!!! STACHE>GOATEE
let’s play of soviet run on No Step Back? multiple episodes not so much editing ? anyone else?
Feedback Gaming said before (it could have changed) that in Singleplayer there's pretty much no use in making AT Guns, just add support AA to your divisions and you will be fine against the AI's incompetent armor. (Yes, AA has Piercing. Because IRL we learned that AA guns can be surprisingly good against armor. Think of the Flak 88. Or the Flakpanzer 1 and Panzer II using 2 different variants of the same 20mm autocannon.)
I started the video and thought "Man, seems like Alex had a bit too much coffee today." Turns out it was still on 1.25 speed from the timelapse I was watching previously.
Mustache looking good
This human wall strategy will be fun if you do the following: 1. modify the tactics file, find guerilla tactics and set the factor to 400. 2. enter the game, learn a land doctrine that gives you guerilla tactics. 3. have divisions with infantries and aa support, no artillery or anti tank needed. You can hold the line forever even with guns only.
in addition, if you have the special trait that reduces enemy air support by 50%, you don't even need air force. You can make a video that uses infantry only, hold the line for 3 years without losing any land tiles, and win the game.
I call this mustache, the Freddie Mercury mustache
1:42 this is gonna be sold out in a day I feel like
I just love your hoi4 videos, especially your challenge Videos! I will never get tired of your entertaining and I even enjoy your style of advertising Things like manscaped
Ah yes roaching. A funny meme build to piss of Germany mains in an Esports game.
Alex, if you had built level 3 or 4 land forts on your land border with Germany, then set the garrison to hold forts, every division you made would only sit in the forts along whatever border you built forts.
the division experience penalty for converting troops means you'll only really be losing 16% or so, so what people started doing these days, is training troops with out of date equipment, on a division template with no artillery for instance, then converting to another division template only after they hit level 3, which does knock them back down to level 2, but now going from that point to get to 3 ISN'T nearly as far to go. so far fewer equipment is lost through this method. you'll need to remember they still lose equipment using this method, but the trick is, you'd be using up far less equipment through training this way.
Now all I’m thinking about is a time line where the Nazis are committing awful war crimes on skellys #neveragain
Were gonna build a wall!
Builds a one division, one fort front line
Alex...that's...that's not a wall, that's barely a hedge
Alex, your videos are so funny keep up the great work!
9:40 actually it's not bad, just the "o" should be shorter and not so exaggerated
poland existing again is called resistance being too high
Fun idea: Play No Step Back and try the Tannu Tuva achievment ;)
Taking “defense in depth” to new levels
Ah yes, china's strategy
Rambler drinking game. Every time Rambler exclaims in surprise take a drink, says come on mate drink,, says are you having a giraffe drain drink, Rambler says I'm gonna play as russia, drink water.. your gonna need it lol
All Hail the Rambler Stache! Long may it stache!
When you play enough HOI4, you eventually grow a moustache. After reaching 2,000 hours, I now have a Kaiser Wilhelm moustache. Alex appears to be channeling Hirohito in this episode, or a young Stalin?
Whoop so excited
Challenge that I haven't seen a single person attempt. As Turkey, defeat the soviet union when the montreau convention focus is denied. Montreau convention must be your first focus.
we want paradox mega campaign
Card has been bought! I wonder what number I'll get
16:03 You can see the console for a frame or two! Finally i got proof!
As Germany only use tanks( rules: can use support division, navy and air force stay same, since you can’t get naval invasion stuff for tanks take awhile you can use only paratroopers and marines, division’s from other countries is allowed, motorized and mechanized divisions are not allowed.)
This took “elastic defence” way to seriously.
‘HOW ARE THE GREECES THIS COMPETENT!?’
Alex the Rambler - 2021
you look much better with the stache than the goatee
Dig the "Regimental" you got going on the upper lip there Well Done
good video bro
So Alex basically did what the soviets done irl
The power of the mustache is inferior to the Chonk.
the stache is looking good Mr. Rambler!
Why did you think one div per tile would work?
Just bought an art card, cant wait for it to arrive!
Alex factory placement is giving me a stroke
CHALLENGE!! I sent you an incredibly hard disaster save as Yugoslavia. Save it and return it to me.
Did anyone saw the portrait of our king Alexander the rambler
You mean the one that he used as the thumbnail for his AoE4 video?
@@northofnashira2575 yes
imagine being a german soldier sitting in your position north of kiev and hear that berlin has fallen
Don't know how the algorithm gods would like it but a playthrough of a Russia game with no step back DLC would be nice to see
I see you have the best spooky mod ever conceived turned on
Mustache Movember?
Arty wall
So got to dress up as Freddie Mercury with that epic 'tash!!!
For the algorithm
putting strongholds behind the river with infanterie divisions did help me against the germans as i played with the soviets. In the end though the allies attacked and utterly destroyed everything with their overpowered airforce and a-bombs. No chance at all^^
I look forward to the first 'No Step Back' video being the monarchist Soviet path
What mod has skelly empire
How do you expect me to complete No Nut November when you're rocking that tashe? Cmon man, give a guy a chance
Challenge! Wonder Weapons only game. Imagine… entire panzer divisions made up of only the Ratte and V2 rocket support ;)
Take over the world as norway in hearts of Iron 4
Delightful video
Alex: this is bonkers!
Me: well yes but actually no
An idea for a video. I released a challenge in My Road to 56 a long time ago to just form Prussia as Danzig. You can't use any other mods except the italy companion mod, and ironman mode ofc.
Only naval and air as US. (it actually works really well, just build subs, carriers, heavy fighters and strat bombers and your allies actually do the rest)
Alex be like: “ GaRRisOnS? WhAts THaT? “
That mustache fits you well alex
Rambler, don't you cheat in the NNN challenge now!
The moustache is only a thing because of a manscaped or whatever sponsorship - 100% certain about that.
why is transylvaniiia named skelly land?
If you throw enough shit at the wall, some of it is liable to stick.
Next Challenge: Perfect D-day as Britain or USA
Ooh starting to look a bit like Mosley now with that 'tache 👌
''I may not have guns, but I have people. They are beginning to lack guns AND people.'' Stalin 1945.
Alex looks like that one tow car that looks like tow mater but with a mustache from cars 2
Challenge, the micro-pro challenge, you can't use battleplans or anything, you can only personally order troops to attack, everything is allowed as long as it's not using the battleplans
hope it won't be too much of a hassle if you do it cause of the hole thing with your wrist or whatever it was that made you not do it in the start