Pagan Latvia is pretty fun, especially if you actually try to kill the Soviet before Germany comes there to help you. I couldn't capitulate them fast enough without exploits, but I had already won the war when they joined at least once. Then I went for "Finnish Him", hated my life for even trying, did it exploiting the shit of the game, and never played in that area since then.
Latvians were practitioners of Finnish and Baltic mythology, not Norse mythology. They didnt believe in Norse gods. I believe the party/group for Fascists in the game is for the followers of the Thunder god, primarily.
I played a game of Estonia, and the strategy is to puppet the Baltic nations, so your core territory doesn't expand, meaning you can stay alive with just the tiles on the top of Estonia's boarder, plus, you can just steal the troops your puppets build, and then just build as many forts and costal forts as possible on the top of your territory, so you can rack up a 20:1 kill ratio for the whole game until the Germans outnumber the soviets because they will have wasted so much of their equipment that they wouldn't be able to build up their troop count to match Germany's Troop count by Barbarossa.
As Latvian, I dam you for not playing as this faction in first place. Very very bad boy. Fun fact, my grand-grandfather was crewmember in one of these submarines , he finished French sub-school in 1927
Alex you should have tried to form an agency and collaboration governments in soviet union if you had the civ factories that would have made them capitulate faster.Enjoyed this vid a lot though much love.
19:31 idk why but for some reason it’s like the ai has become genuinely brain dead in the past update, like there is no logical reason whatsoever for the ai to be stacking like that when if the game had a regular frontline order they would be spread out just fine. It’s like the devs just made it so the soviets death stack in 1941-42, then as soon as it hits 43 the German ai is programmed to just select all divisions and right click onto a tile and leave them all sitting there
i from latvia. latvia very good country. we have people dancing and singing and driving cars and sports. economy is ok, maybe we need money. a many money. maybe too many money. but is ok
I once played as communist Latvia and made the Baltic-Belorrussian ssr, when the Germans invaded the Soviets got pushed back to the urals but didn't surrender and i survived on scraping the barrel with more than 1 million men in the field💀
Odd, I saw this video pop up on my phone, went to my subscriptions and it wasnt there, then went to your youtube channel and it still wasnt there. It wasnt until I went into videos that it finally popped up? 🤔
He’s in Canada, so he’s becoming more Canadian each video. God save us when he starts talking with American English rather than English English or Canadian English
"Praise Odin" -Obviously, Latvian Pagans That's Norse Paganism, Latvian Paganism was more around the Dievturība, a native form of paganism not Scandinavian Paganism. It was a neo-paganist movement based around the ancient pagans that were stamped out by the Catholics.
When you are pushing that deep into russia past moscow into the urals you should use a much ligher on supply army of like 10 horses. Otherwise you just lose so much to attrition.
*THE CULT OF THE CHONK WILL GROW!*
Aye
IT WILL SPREAD
Love the pins but any chance of a poster or something in the future? Would love that personally!
Proof?
It’s not a cult it’s aggressive religion
A very underrated nation in my books!
Pagan Latvia is pretty fun, especially if you actually try to kill the Soviet before Germany comes there to help you. I couldn't capitulate them fast enough without exploits, but I had already won the war when they joined at least once. Then I went for "Finnish Him", hated my life for even trying, did it exploiting the shit of the game, and never played in that area since then.
Honestly for a native English speaker your pronunciation of "Pērkonkrusts" is pretty good
Been watching for around a year and a half now. You got me into HOI4 and its now my favorite game! That you for creating this great content!
get out bot
@@Slimshadypfp ??? im not a bot
"They put the Romanians on my flank... They left!" -Axis high command circa 1945
After all, Matt always gets some "hi"s, but Alex never gets some. Let's change that ! Hi Alex !
Hi Alex
Hi Alex
Hi Alex
Hi Alex! :D
Hi Matt
Latvians were practitioners of Finnish and Baltic mythology, not Norse mythology. They didnt believe in Norse gods. I believe the party/group for Fascists in the game is for the followers of the Thunder god, primarily.
not Finnish, but Finno-Hungarian.
Did you know that Latvia had a colony in the America's for short time?
Not Latvia per se, but the duchy of Courland
2:57 That moment when hoi4 has more pagan content for the Baltics than Eu4
Lol true...
I'm not 100% sure, but if you chose creating "Ostland", you could also get cores on Belarus
some real hoi4 logic for sure
do an A to Z series so you will have even more fun playing nations you never played before!
That religion that the Latvian path shows is one in ck3 but I forgot the name
Romuva.
Glory to King Chonk and the Chonker Reich
Why can’t I comment?
May his glory reign forever
This means there will be a Tibet game
This would be funny to see
Im a simple latvian, whenever i see something releated with baltics, i click.
real
I played a game of Estonia, and the strategy is to puppet the Baltic nations, so your core territory doesn't expand, meaning you can stay alive with just the tiles on the top of Estonia's boarder, plus, you can just steal the troops your puppets build, and then just build as many forts and costal forts as possible on the top of your territory, so you can rack up a 20:1 kill ratio for the whole game until the Germans outnumber the soviets because they will have wasted so much of their equipment that they wouldn't be able to build up their troop count to match Germany's Troop count by Barbarossa.
I managed to get a kill count of 700+K troops, while only loosing 40 something K before Barbarossa happened.
Either way I still think alex made a mistake of not allying with germany.
You should do Z to A, totally original idea
A then z then b then y and so on so forth
As Latvian, I dam you for not playing as this faction in first place. Very very bad boy. Fun fact, my grand-grandfather was crewmember in one of these submarines , he finished French sub-school in 1927
waiting for A-Z Monarchy only!!
Alex, I agree re:tommyK
Dude doesn’t think, all he does is shout
Pērkonkrusts= Thunder cross.
Alex you should have tried to form an agency and collaboration governments in soviet union if you had the civ factories that would have made them capitulate faster.Enjoyed this vid a lot though much love.
the only merch needed is actual chonkers
13:07 when the trees start speaking Latvian
You played as the Baltic Unitary State two months ago 😂
19:31 idk why but for some reason it’s like the ai has become genuinely brain dead in the past update, like there is no logical reason whatsoever for the ai to be stacking like that when if the game had a regular frontline order they would be spread out just fine. It’s like the devs just made it so the soviets death stack in 1941-42, then as soon as it hits 43 the German ai is programmed to just select all divisions and right click onto a tile and leave them all sitting there
MY MAN, greetings from Portugal :)
oi! thats abt all the portugese ik lol
A to Zed, eh? When Bhutan ?
If you just spelled out Z and said it as zed, that means you can’t spell zed without zed without zed and on…
@@RNKel1 zeded
Wait a minute where have I seen this war IRL in modern times before...
"I its November and i can see Moscow. Press forward men!"
- Napoleon and Hitler aaaaaaaaand Alex
i from latvia. latvia very good country. we have people dancing and singing and driving cars and sports. economy is ok, maybe we need money. a many money. maybe too many money. but is ok
I once played as communist Latvia and made the Baltic-Belorrussian ssr, when the Germans invaded the Soviets got pushed back to the urals but didn't surrender and i survived on scraping the barrel with more than 1 million men in the field💀
17:46 So does this count as a disaster save?
I remember playing as latvian going for united Baltic asembal and my strategy was to hold against the soviets until the Germans were ready to join
Funny how youtube recommends me this video after all the news about the homemade titanic sub
I'm pretty sure you did a disaster save with Latvia.
“A United Baltic Empirrrreeeeee!” 🤣🤣🤣
17:53 German solider in battle of Moscow
Hmm yes lore of Baltic Empire resurgence momentum 100
Alex the Rambles Latvian Boogaloo
I played for Latvia several times, 2 times I took entire planet. Play for Ostland Latvia tree.
Just ordered a pin, love the chonk! Shipping on the other, less love for that 🤣
The Long Khanate of Khiva
Hearing Alex say "Ya man" instead of "Ya boi" feels weird and unnatural.
Odd, I saw this video pop up on my phone, went to my subscriptions and it wasnt there, then went to your youtube channel and it still wasnt there. It wasnt until I went into videos that it finally popped up? 🤔
Hoi4 All Nations but you use a wheel to randomly pick what country to make a video on that week
Trying to throw shade at Tommy like you could compete against him lol
"Let's wait until we get some PP."
- Alex the rambler.
"we are bussin" lmfao
Aggressive Manuever >> 18:19
First time commenting on one of your videos weirdly enough, video seems very nice (this is from the beginning of the video)
0:37
Alex says the American English word for the last letter of the Latin alphabet. He’s becoming more American every day
He’s in Canada, so he’s becoming more Canadian each video. God save us when he starts talking with American English rather than English English or Canadian English
@@masonharvath-gerrans832 america is 2 continents, one of which canada is in. so while my original intentions arent 100% true, im still not wrong
How he - AGAIN - does his Leeeroooy Jenkins
Pins look great
alex looks like the scouts va from tf2
Gobble gobble
What about Austria hungary? Every time I go to fight the Czechs I lose all the Germans eat the Sudatenland halfway thru the war.
half of my hoi4 time is estonia and poland 🔥
Yes Latvia am Latvian and am bin waiting 2 years for this gem play yes thx you Alex am really happy thx you Alex
Ordered my pin =)
You’ve never done siam
The Hi Mat cult will continue for years!
Hi Alex!
You should play as Norway
did bro really just attack lithuania
hi from Latvia!
He said zed and zee he has transcended reality
Shots fired
I guarantee you he never played Oman he probably played butan more then Oman
im a simple latvian i see latvia i like
you should sell the chonk cups
Hi Alex! 👋🏻
Damn my country getting recognized
"Praise Odin" -Obviously, Latvian Pagans
That's Norse Paganism, Latvian Paganism was more around the Dievturība, a native form of paganism not Scandinavian Paganism. It was a neo-paganist movement based around the ancient pagans that were stamped out by the Catholics.
I really liked that
why is it you sometimes cant take their navy?
and do you need the new dlc for that?
No you don't I believe it was just a patch
Im the Mayonnaise on the Escalator
Im going Upstars
So see you later
Anyone knows if he played monarchic Spain?
He played carlist spain when la resistance came out
Hi Matt.
Hello Matt!
mmmm new alex episode 1 minute ago
Real hearts. Real iron.
Hi Alex!!
Hi Alex! Hi Matt! it’s High Mark
Excellent
THE CULT
Is this a mod or a DLC? To get al these nice focus trees for minor nations?
Its no step back DLC
@@osmankarabulut6171 Thanks man
What mod is this? Cause there's 3 spains
How good or bad are Baltic states
QUAGMIRE IS THAT YOU??????
can we get some more victoria 2?
Chonk!!!!
calling out tommy K need to see another match with you guys
aussie aussie aussie?
Chonk
Try black ice mod
When you are pushing that deep into russia past moscow into the urals you should use a much ligher on supply army of like 10 horses. Otherwise you just lose so much to attrition.
Hi from latvia 🇱🇻
Chonk.