In Theory it isn't too bad of an Idea. Germany can't progress down it's focus tree if they remove it's ability to take Austria through the focus. That way they never get invaded, because every day for the rest of time it tries to take that policy but can't.
JAWOOOOHHHLLL, great timing on this video. Time to eat some food while watching these awesome people make yet another futile attempt at overcoming their incompetency.
I once turned Belgium Fascist, ended up capturing half of France and owning the Soviet Union. Feels good to see Belgium written across the world. Good times.
Switzerland has such a large army because of national service: Most adults have military training. Or at least that's what I've heard. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
The Swiss have mandatory military service requirements for all of its citizens. Everyone has to serve at some point unless there is some sort of special medical requirement or there is some other special circumstance.
So Sips starts off saying they have learned from their mistakes and do not want to start early wars, continues on to say, "so I am thinking of have an early war with Austria...." Welp.
During intro: Sips :"We've learned, let's not go to war early. 20 seconds later: "I'm thinking maybe I'm gonna take Austria before it's annexed and then I'm going into Yugoslavia. That's some crazy short term memory, buddy.
Oh, Christ. Sips and Sjin in a faction would be hilarious... But short lived. They would find some way to break the game. They'd find a way to use cavalry in a paratrooper unit or some shit.
Yeah, the Belgians did horrible things in the Congo although it was technically private property of king Leopold II (not a prince) until 1908. As part of Belgium conditions became better, a bit like British or French colonies were. Congo became independant in 1960. The uranium used for the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan came from the Congo.
"The Belgians were terrible in the Congo" 2 minutes later, "The Force Publique du Congo, they sound fun" - the force Publique were the guys who committed all the atrocities!
6:06 Leopold II owned Congo privately during the horrors, and Belgium essentially confiscated Congo from him because of it. So it wasn't the Belgians who did it, but Leopold.
The main reason the germans invaded Belgium instead of Switzerland was because of its terrain. The Germans planned to quickly topple France with their famous blitzkrieg tactic. Problem is, they needed to circumnavigate the maginot line quickly before the French could respond (they weren't strong enough for a war of attrition back then). This strategy relied heavily on mobile divisions like trucks and tanks. Switzerland's terrain consists of a lot of mountains and inpassable terrain which would slow them down a lot. Belgium on the other hand is rather flat and close to Paris and Duinkerken... The germans did plan to invade Switzerland with operation Tennenbaum but only after the war with Britain.
If you want a good mod I recommend the KaiserReich Mod which adds a bunch of cool shit to the game. (It as if Germany won WWI and monarchy continued to exist)
on the point of Switzerland. they practice armed neutrality meaning that they wanted to be neutral but knew that they needed an Army to defend it. Switzerland still today has a large militia and having a gun in the house is common in Switzerland. Switzerland actually managed to mobilise its army faster than any allied power when war broke out. Even during the war both allied and axis aircraft were shot down for flying over Switzerland to ensure that they wouldn't be branded a supporter of one side.
I would highly recommend you guys play with the road to '56 mod it adds so many new focus trees. It keeps the same feel of the game while adding soooooo much. Would recommend highly
I don't think there could be a more wrong version of Swis. not being involved in WW2. It's cause they collapsed every tunnel, bridge, and road leading into the nation. Conscripted every man and armed every home, (still do) and dared Germany to try them, Germany wanted to invade them, but knew they would never even touch them and didn't bother.
I believe Switzerland still has a lot of their major roadways/bridges armed with explosives in case of invasion, and every able bodied Swiss has a gun due to mandatory military service?
Sips: "let's not start a war too early this time." About 5 seconds later "i'm gonna take Austria before the Anschlus." Fucking genius.
In Theory it isn't too bad of an Idea. Germany can't progress down it's focus tree if they remove it's ability to take Austria through the focus. That way they never get invaded, because every day for the rest of time it tries to take that policy but can't.
CptCutter81 Germany can still progress if Austria doesn't exist the focus is just skipped
They get an event instead which is basically danzig or war, except its now Vienna or war.
CtCutter, i wasn't saying that it is a bad idea, i'm just saying that he contradicted his own plan in about 5 seconds.
At least after that he settled down to focus on producing Danielle Steel
What we learned from last time is: DONT LET SIPS START THE WAR.
It's ok, if they're democratic he shouldn't be able to xD
alex scase u can change that bruh
It wasn't his fault lol. Its because two nations were fabricating against turkey.
It was his fault. It's common knowledge that the allies can and will guarantee above 15% world tension.
More like: DON'T BECOME FACIST AND NOT JOIN GERMANY!
They gave sips a landlocked country
Thank god
What do you mean?
every single game they've said "lets not attack early. lets let things develop." followed shortly by an attack......
I cant believe that you started a new one so quickly after the last, soooo happy!. STRAP IN BOIS!!!!
for a journey of failiure again
The last one was recorded in the middle of February, this one was recorded I think a week or two later.
I untied my noose for this better be worth it
Daniel Young I cut open my belly to drain my liver of bleach....
my intestines are getting heavy.😐
I superglued my wrist back up for this
JAWOOOOHHHLLL, great timing on this video. Time to eat some food while watching these awesome people make yet another futile attempt at overcoming their incompetency.
Aa at least they won once :P
Jawohl herr Kaleun - thanks to Silent Hunter 3 / Das Boot
There's been a lot of HoI on this channel, it's great.
MrAntieMatter uh oh
its sips o'clock ?
leander claes what culture
That's the million dollar question isn't it.
It's time to get-
oh wait, wrong channel
"You can't just enslave a race of beetles"
"I fuckin' did"
I once turned Belgium Fascist, ended up capturing half of France and owning the Soviet Union. Feels good to see Belgium written across the world. Good times.
I once took over Germany with Luxemburg. Good times
FoeReaper 4000 how
You take advantage of bigger allies saving you, or you fort up your one province to 10 with entrentched troops.
So what is the strategy this time, to declare on UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA and Soviet Union all at the same time again ?
and ethiopia, liberia, brazil, argentina, iran, iraq, german republic, british empire, astro-hungary and more...
Switzerland has such a large army because of national service: Most adults have military training. Or at least that's what I've heard. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
The Swiss have mandatory military service requirements for all of its citizens.
Everyone has to serve at some point unless there is some sort of special medical requirement or there is some other special circumstance.
"I think what we've learned from last time, is don't go to war too early."
"I'm gonna take Austria before Anschlüß."
Don't ever change, Sips.
So Sips starts off saying they have learned from their mistakes and do not want to start early wars, continues on to say, "so I am thinking of have an early war with Austria...." Welp.
I like how Pyrion only suspects Sips of betrayal instead of Lewis
YOU GUYS GOT BACK SO FAST THANKS A LOT!
During intro: Sips :"We've learned, let's not go to war early.
20 seconds later: "I'm thinking maybe I'm gonna take Austria before it's annexed and then I'm going into Yugoslavia.
That's some crazy short term memory, buddy.
I'm glad that Sips is talking more in these. In the other series' it seemed like he didn't even really want to play.
"Force Publique de Congo Belge, those guys sound fun, I will keep them around."
ಠ_ಠ
Another one so soon, fantastic
Honestly, I love these series. Don't listen to the try hards!
Glad to see that PFlax is playing the only significant power and Lewis has been demoted to Belgium
so glad you guys started back up another series again so soon
It is astonishing that they didn't give Lewis any country at all........ XD
lewis is cooping with Pyrion on that province of France haha
YESSS Thanks guys love your HOI series's in the past, thanks for the new one!
Pyrion as France, Lewis as Belgium. That's a mini-series it seems.
I think it's a wise move letting Sips play as Switzerland.
Sips already on 0 manpower and not noticing it yet again. This is going to be AMAZING!
Can we have a game where you are against each other?? like a Hearts of Iron "challenge" with sips and sjin vs lewis and pyrion?
Oh, Christ. Sips and Sjin in a faction would be hilarious... But short lived. They would find some way to break the game. They'd find a way to use cavalry in a paratrooper unit or some shit.
A Clash of Kings mod for Mount and Blade is amazing, and has amazing music! It's so good, got that Reins of Castamere going on
Should have been France, Spain and Italy
Should have*
Are you Pyrion's long lost brother, P Flux?
so glad this is back so soon
the [potato restaurant] has taken control of germany!
de kongo is van ons!
Yeah, the Belgians did horrible things in the Congo although it was technically private property of king Leopold II (not a prince) until 1908. As part of Belgium conditions became better, a bit like British or French colonies were. Congo became independant in 1960. The uranium used for the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan came from the Congo.
Mhm, it comes to something when the British and French are knocking on your door to reign in your colonies. Didn't stop the Portuguese though.
Oh man, this series is great but i love the idea of the 3 of you playing stellaris aswell. :P
8:53 THE MAN ON THE BRITISH COUNTRY SIIIIDE
The best idea is that Sips is Switzerland. He can sit there, be neutral, and stay out of everyone's way.
Time for some accurate history with Lewis
Its Mitler and the Lazis
Herr Jittler and the Crazies.
"We don't want to go to war early"
"I want to take over Austria before its annexed"
PICK ONE
They definitely need to do a stellaris game after this is done
I like how they finally decided to put their obvious leader Pyrion on the thumbnail after all these series's.
Keep these fucking awesome Hearts of Iron videos up, I love them.
That story of sips and his wife sounds like a really fun marriage.
"The Belgians were terrible in the Congo"
2 minutes later, "The Force Publique du Congo, they sound fun" - the force Publique were the guys who committed all the atrocities!
Sips is a big plus in this playthrough.
love that kenny rogers solo sips
Great idea: give the worst person at managing a country the only one that isn't instantly steamrolled by germany at the start of the war
"They can clickity clack down there in the fucking mines where they belong"- Sips 2017
I would love if this group did a Stellaris campaign. I can imagine the hilarious commentary about some of the events and aliens lol
Yeeeees! I was worried they weren't going to do another for a while.
never stop making HOI4 videos
As a Swiss individual, I’m concerned on the fact that Sips of all people is running my country.
I'm always so hyped for these
6:06 Leopold II owned Congo privately during the horrors, and Belgium essentially confiscated Congo from him because of it. So it wasn't the Belgians who did it, but Leopold.
At least they gave Sips the country that doesn't join the war historically
SIPS, YOU'D BETTER START TO LIVESTREAM THAT STELLARIS. I don't care if the commentary isn't that good, I just want to watch you play it.
I've waited ages for Lewis to come to Belgium!
I'm so pumped they immediately started another game!
I love the thumbnail! It's the best!
Man I'm loving all the HOI4.
finally pyrion gets a good nation to play as
"lets make our own faction" oh god.. here we go again.
when lewis picked belgium i went "go to the congos and start chopping them hands off"
So the plan is to have germany completely beat Lewis so that he's out of the game then hold the line in france? ... Brilliant.
The main reason the germans invaded Belgium instead of Switzerland was because of its terrain. The Germans planned to quickly topple France with their famous blitzkrieg tactic. Problem is, they needed to circumnavigate the maginot line quickly before the French could respond (they weren't strong enough for a war of attrition back then). This strategy relied heavily on mobile divisions like trucks and tanks. Switzerland's terrain consists of a lot of mountains and inpassable terrain which would slow them down a lot. Belgium on the other hand is rather flat and close to Paris and Duinkerken...
The germans did plan to invade Switzerland with operation Tennenbaum but only after the war with Britain.
Sips should enslave beetles for us.
This fantastic please keep doing this
petethethirdboo he had enough of naval invasions in the last game so went for a country with no coast :p
France has a create faction (Entente) focus tree
and a focus tree has inviting in it for Yoguslavia, Romania and Poland
If he wanted to have a navy, why not let sips have The Netherlands?
Thanks for doing this, that's really nice of you.
If you want a good mod I recommend the KaiserReich Mod which adds a bunch of cool shit to the game. (It as if Germany won WWI and monarchy continued to exist)
LEWIS PLEASE use the Congo! You have a huge colony, so do whatever you can to make it work for you! Metals, foods, mans, factories, whatever you can!
on the point of Switzerland. they practice armed neutrality meaning that they wanted to be neutral but knew that they needed an Army to defend it. Switzerland still today has a large militia and having a gun in the house is common in Switzerland. Switzerland actually managed to mobilise its army faster than any allied power when war broke out. Even during the war both allied and axis aircraft were shot down for flying over Switzerland to ensure that they wouldn't be branded a supporter of one side.
"There are a million people out in the Congo I could put to use as soldiers...."
Are you kidding Lewis?!? Going through Switzeland was never a logical choice!
"I'm gonna hold France" hahaha that's what the French said
We belgium accept your request to become citizen of belgium lewis. Welcome home, take your mandetory fries and mayonase every day before 6pm.
Pyrion is right. They did hide a lot of gold in Switzerland, and that was a major reason why they didn't invade.
"Super Mario and the League Of Friendship"
...aaaaaaaand I'm done.
Stellaris on this channel would be grand
I hope Pyrion realises he has more than just France and the territory in Africa
STRAIGHT AWAY! YES! NO WAIT!
Sips will need some paratroopers for Austria
Looks like pyrion hasn't learned about garrison orders and general still doesn't like the using army orders
thank god for this series
I haven't recovered from the last one yet! Too much war...though, please, proceed.
Sips... Stellaris FTW.... you gotta... you just gotta....
I would highly recommend you guys play with the road to '56 mod it adds so many new focus trees. It keeps the same feel of the game while adding soooooo much. Would recommend highly
The terrain is quite tuff in switzerland. That's also a reason why the germans didn't go through it.
Sips' wife should've said "Really? You should've killed them with fire!"
Lew is now going to turn into king Leopoldo 11
God I miss these playthroughs!
I don't think there could be a more wrong version of Swis. not being involved in WW2. It's cause they collapsed every tunnel, bridge, and road leading into the nation. Conscripted every man and armed every home, (still do) and dared Germany to try them, Germany wanted to invade them, but knew they would never even touch them and didn't bother.
lewis make Belgium proud
Guys, saying Mario is gonna be even worse, now Nintendo is gonna get all up in your vids XD
I am really happy he plays as Belgium as a belgian
I saw Hoi3 in the thumbinail and got exited.
I believe Switzerland still has a lot of their major roadways/bridges armed with explosives in case of invasion, and every able bodied Swiss has a gun due to mandatory military service?
Yes this is e best formula. Have one main power and 2 minor countries