Longest video yet. Hope you guys enjoy! Also can’t believe genkar stayed on Finland even though he was capped in 42. Also don't get used to long videos. This one is close to 22 minutes because of the content in that specific game. Edit: For those shitting on Thomas here’s some explanation. Thomas promised not to micro the eastern front because it was new USSR players. Thomas’s coop wasn’t up for the task alone(which also wasn’t fair and that’s on me) so after a year or two of him getting shit on, Thomas stepped in and helped.
Japan and Italy's drug fuelled rants, all the minors being total doomers on the Eastern Front and Germany unplugging his keyboard is certainly an axis coalition huh
The mental image of Mussolini and Hirohito snorting lines of coke and shouting through a telegraph line for 4 years strait back and fourth while the Romanians are starving to death is a mental imagine I will never forget
POV: You are the Japanese navy panicking in the Mediterranean while being chased by the entire British fleet, while German CAS is having a siesta in Spain
It's like a wacky reverse-universe where the entire German general staff collapsed into a coma for 4 years while every other member of the axis chadded up and formed the A-Team, then immediately spend the next 10 minutes screaming at each other.
@@andrewhopkins886 they get the plane on a safe hight and then the pilot awakes, pushes a button which litterally explodes one engine and goes back to sleep
@@andrasbeke3012 throw in Jack for that acerbic wit we all know and love when he joins in on the chaos, but yes - Golden and Bo make for a wonderful Comedy Duo :D
Goldens POV of this when Bo was telling him to Micro his navy was so funny, I wish Bo had used it, he's literally using the theatres to quickly flip between attacking Leningrad, then flipping to Dday then flipping to India to also attack the Soviets and he had to keep up such a fast rate
The Japanese troops in Europe: “We wouldn’t have to fucking be here if the German High Command would actually do its job and command its army. Or do literally anything, for that matter”
Somewhere in Normandy during WW2… Allied Soldier: Sir, are you sure this is the right beach? Allied General: Of course, why not? Soldier: Cause those are Japanese guys shooting at us
it's especially funny because IRL Germany had an Ost-Bataillone ("Eastern Battalion", made up of volunteers & conscripts from the USSR) on the D-day wall, and US soldiers captured at least 4 asians on Utah beach that were assumed to be Japanese. So there were probably some troops asking that question
This was a great, cursed game. When Golden's hands disappeared and didn't put the navy on strike force he was microing Europe and India at the same time. Braun had to hold the Eastern Front for a year as Romania, and Bo kept repelling the D-Days. Golden and Bo screaming for air support is what the whole last hour of the game was like on stream. This was the Axis team's finest hour.
Golden has made a resurgence and Bo and Golden, while a dream team now, cannot do literally everything while being long, coastal nations, with limited industry and manpower, and two hands each, all by themselves. Even if they will try.
"HELP MEEEE! HELP MEEEEE!!!' Commander of the Combined Fleet Admiral Yamamoto upon seeing 1,500 Allied planes closing in during the Battle of Ibiza Gulf.
Considering one of them blew the suez early they might have had a UK version of Thomas. Besides that they ended up microing against 4 maybe 5 players at a time even as minors. Eventually they run out of hands
@@Annae_xs you forget it was 2 people playing germany. neither micro'd any better than a woodpecker just smashing up the keyboard could.. my brother in christ it is you who is on copium
Imagine a room where you have Hirohito loosing his mind and screaming for help, while Missolinni is begging on his knees for Hitler (who's sitting at the corner of the room facing the wall doing nothing) to put up his Luftwaffe in the Med. In the mean time, you have Franco, Boris and Miklos laughing at the situation. While the whole ship where they're having the meeting, is sinking.
@@ЯрославЯковлев-ш8х The Romanian guy sees fire in the ship, starts bitching at the other bc there's fire in the ship and goes out when he sees an opportunity. That's Braun in a nutshell
Hitlers just having a brain hemorrage from overdosing on morphine and meth while looking at one of his university painting while Mussolini and Tojo are oiled up in gimp gear getting gangsta on the allies and Hirohito, Boris III and Antonescu rapidly play hot potato with a landmine tsar bomba on the AA line
I'm imagining the scene from the 3rd lotr, but instead it's mussolini as Gandalf seeing the Japanese, Chinese and siamese showing up as Rohan. Meanwhile Germany is the steward who just dies
"Siam take your men down the left flank, Japan follow the banner down the center, Manchuko take your company down the right after you pass the coast. Forth and fear no allies. Arise, arise, riders of the Co-Prosperity sphere. Shovels shall be splintered, Guns shall be broken, a sore day a RED DAY AND THE SUN RISES"- Emperor Hirohito to the European Expeditionary Force
So in short: Braun got told to save the Eastern Front, and he actually did. (So did everyone else, except Germany.) Golden saved the Axis. A co-op Germany did less than Genkars as Finland even though he capped in 42. Bo formed the Italian Ghost Division. And the rest of the Axis managed to hold Africa and the Eastern Front and multiple D-Days without German support. What the actual fck.
I mean multiple people saved the eastern front. Like I didn’t include when I had to plug the center with 40 divisions. You can see them in the video though
@@Bokoen1 Indeed, it was funny to see tho after coming from the video of him sending Germany radios instead of fuel and talking about the Romanian braaptrap.
Golden 100% saved the day multiple times. If he hadn't brought his entire army to Europe, the Axis would have collapsed. If he hadn't helped to invade Russia, the Axis would have collapsed. If he hadn't moved his fleet into the Mediterranean, the Axis would have collapsed. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Golden deserves more positive credit for his role this game.
@@equilintogo5378 Reminds me of when he legit fought his way to Europe to save the Axis, carving his way through Asia and Asia Minor, dude gets so much shit but has the makings of a coked up hero lmao
@@superperroquet5841 considering we didn't hear about the American navy all game and how Japan even took Australia. The Americans probably didn't have a navy left
According to Bo, it was that the USSR players were new, so they wanted to handicap the situation a bit. Unfortunately, the German co-op simply wasn't up to the task, being new themselves, and needed help.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that from the start of Barbarossa Thomas did practically nothing the rest of the game causing the ensuing chaos or the fact that the Allies tried like 4 D-Days and lost every single one of them despite making enormous gains each time, all the while the Axis was in total chaos
Or that Italy didn't shoot Mussolini despite losing all his manpower to the point he was just one or two ranks from Scraping The Barrel. Italy real life: worst Axis nation, soldiers run or retreat, made fun of, terrible weapons and low morale coupled with bad generals and politician, suffering defeat after defeat only to then become strong when fighting against the Axis Italy this game: literal Chad to the the Virgin Germany, suffers more casualties in the war than Italy had on any war combined, won battle after battle with weapons that outmatched the Allies and never broke.
Thomas couldn't micro because they made a deal with the Soviet players that it would only be his co-op microing, since the Soviets were brand-new players and so having an experienced player curb stomp them would be BS.
@@equilintogo5378 Even so, Golden was doing the work of two people if his, and others' comments are to be believed. Honestly I this Thomas should have pulled his Co-Op into a private call to work through how the microing was supposed to be done, since he was new and this was his first proper game.
Despite all the arguing. This axis coalition is still more functional and cohesive than the IRL one. I’d say this was a hard fought, if cursed, axis victory.
I just imagine the Japanese, Siamese, Manchuko, Italian, and Spanish armies collectively screaming non-stop as they climb on trains hauling ass between Western and Eastern Europe snuffing out Allied counter attacks only to repeat the process a couple weeks later when Germany collapses yet again on the opposite front.
Holy shit, I loved the storytelling of this episodes, I keep coughing with laughter. Braun and Golden become the saviors and competent men of Europe. Golden even takes Paris. Then he pisses it away by letting Italy get invaded. Really kept getting me guessing on who was going to win that.
Braun was the forgotten hero of this game. He held the Southern Front with a collapsing Germany - every other Romania wouldve collapsed at that point but not him
@@mosesracal6758 Same with Italy. Complete reverse from both historical and AI versions. Even when forced back to just above Scraping The Barrel, still continues the fight defeating every enemy army it faces. Meanwhile, Japan defeats China and kills the American fleet, again a reverse from both historical and AI.
@@ihatesovietderp2268 no. It’s a reference to “Can’t hit the side of a barn,” as in shooting. The bigger the target, they easier it should be to “hit.”
There were ups and downs in the story. Relationships were made and relationships were destroyed, there were Villains and there were Heroes. However, in the end one thing we can all agree on is where the fuck was Germany this game?
I’ll be honest this game has the emotions of a rollercoaster. I loved just watching every asset of the axis army being taken away. Like watching the Italian manpower just drain and the Japanese-Italian fleet be decimated.
Goldens micro in the game was the most insane I’ve seen in any hoi4 game. He was flickering between France and Iran microing both fronts at once it was crazy
I really want to know, how does one truly fail to micro to such a degree that was seen in this game? Were the Germany players tired, incompetent, lazy or genuinely trolling?
@@kylerowsley Why did they put a drunk player on germany? Even Swimmy would have done better lmao Now that I think about it, would Swimmy do better than a drunk Thomas?
@@helixx4678 Yes Swimmy wins if he activates his brain. But sadly he does that only half the time. Otherwise it is a hoi player with no hands against a hoi player with no brain.
Best episode ever. Vik did a great job on the script and honestly 10/10 on IMBD. Phenomenal story telling kept you glued to the edge of your seat. Battle of the Bastards wish it was this good.
Pressure I suppose. Getting shouted at for hours probably made them afraid to do or say anything, locking up their game performance. I say this because they were still relatively talkative at the start, but by the end they were dead silent. It's really evident in the large Mediterranean naval battle, where not a single word was spoken despite everyone screaming at them.
THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE HOI4 VID BO! I'm literally crying from laughing and smiling in the entire episode. Golden doing everything to save the european theatre and throwing because you 'accidentally' planned to blow the suez is the funniest shit I've seen in years. Thank you for making my day!
On a technical skill level, Golden is actually one of their best players (I'd rank him similar to Bo). Golden just likes trying wild new strategies instead of always doing the same thing, and I can't blame him for that. It's boring using the same exact same strategy every single game. On bad days, this comes across as trolling, but when the crazy ideas work out it's glorious.
@@trapical and for some reason, his Germany games seem to be shit while his games as minors and Japan tend to be much better. Probably because those countries aren’t the center of the faction, so they have room to experiment.
@@kingandcountry1242 I saw another comment that said that Golden apparently does better when he doesn't have to do a bunch of teamwork stuff, hence why he does so well as Japan.
Golden Japan games are really something special. I legitimately think that he would solo sealion as Japan if you ask him. Edit: Seeing the bit with the navy. I retract the second half of the above comment, but I'm keeping the first half. Seeing Golden as Japan outperform Golden as Germany in Europe despite all his stuff being on the wrong side of the planet will never not be great. Edit 2: 8:22 Unknown: “Golden?” Golden: “What?” Unknown: “Why are you just [unintelligible]?” Golden: “I’m going to fucking FRANCE” Unknown: “You have to keep something [unintelligible]” Golden: “NO i canNOT”
In the most recent game on stream, Golden became the first and only player to fully capitulate Mexico, the USA, and Canada all at the same time as Japan. Fr his Japan games are always a wild ride.
The context for the navy stuff was that he was flipping through Leningrad, D-Day, and India all at once trying to save everything. He really really did not have the hands to even try.
This is probably the best bokoen video to date. Between Thomas completely throwing the game and Italy and Japan carrying Europe on their backs with blood, sweat and absolute sheer adrenaline while Spain held Africa and helped in D day, Hungary helped D day and the eastern front and Romania basically solo held the eastern front. FOR OVER A YEAR. The entire axis squad chadded up so god damn hard and if germany was at least doing anything other than sit still they would've dominated that game
Bo: "Someone has to micro SOMETHING" Morgan Freeman: "In actuality, they did not micro anything." Also, Goldens epic rant at the 7min mark almost felt like I was listening to a WWE promo.
This is the best episode I've seen during my YEARS of watching this series every day a new one comes out. An absolute rollercoaster of emotions with a constant uncertainty of which driving force would prevail, the german incompetence or the combined axis resolve even with all the drama. 10/10
Yeah, this is probably Bo's best Hoi4MP in a nutshell ever. The arguing, the throwing, the back and forth invasions and the seemingly impossible victory this CLUSTERFUCK OF AN AXIS got. It's just unbelievably good
@@mosesracal6758 and it's very rare for golden to scream to such an extent, i think the one i remeber the most is the hoi 3 one, sorry if i remeber it wrong but that's video i placed 1st on the funny list of the channel until this video come out
You know with the exception of Germany this was the most competent axis ever. If there was ever a way to fight a coalition war it was this. Japan uses Manchukuo to unite China and help Siam take India to Iran, takes Australia, and then gets shipped off to Europe to help repel a D-Day invasion in the West as well as fight in the East. Oh and of course guard Italy in the Mediterranean. And of course Siam and China are helping in the East as well. And in Europe you have Spain helping out in the East as well, Italy guarding the Atlantic and fighting off D-Day invasions, and Romania basically holding that Eastern front mostly by itself until reinforcements arrived from East Asia. I don't know how else you genuinely try to team up to take on the world because this is how you do it.
This was a fucking treat. The Golden and Bo rants really remind me of the older videos in the series, back when everybody was screaming at each other. Good stuff.
I consider this video a direct sequel to "They can't D-Day" due to both their long lengths, improbable axis victories, and starring Golden as the main character.
another amazing video from Bo😂 Side-note: did anyone else find it super eerie that Germany was almost completely radio silent? You'd expect there to be trolling, malding, and banter from them, but no, there was nothing.
This is literally every axis member merging their single braincells into one collective consciousness, only to have it tear itself apart as they collectively lose their shit, only to reunite and pull off the final victory!
that is no joke. it blows my mind when you see a ww2 map and its just Germany in Europe and north Africa. how people dont realize their were 6-12 axis powers depending on how your counting is crazy to me.
Still higher? The level of coordination was arguably better than that of the Allies. For all of their screaming, this was a very coordinated team even if Germany just decided to completely stop caring about using its army m
21:20 i dont think brest has the physical land area to fit that many men, you can shoot artillery in any general direction towards brest and kill like 100 allied soldiers with each shell
i was expecting a coupe from all the minours too take germanys stuff but this ended better then expected. Hands down the MVP Award goes to Golden for saving you guys. Keep uo the work lads your vid are always the funniest when it comes to you guys' banter.
This reminds me of the time Hitler was out cold after taking some hard drugs while the Allies were landing in Normandy. And he had previously ordered all matters concerning the Atlantic wall would have to go through him first. So everyone was panicking on trying to decide whether to wake him up or not while the troops at the beaches were panicking with no direction for a bit.
Honestly props to all the non-Germany Axis players(even Finland cause it wasn't really their fault they collapsed). They're the most competent I've ever seen them
This is still one of my favorite Bokoen videos. You know you are in for a rollercoaster ride when Golden Japan rides to rescue the European Axis before the vid's midway mark. A triumph of the human spirit 10/10
I swear, golden is always casting the pokemon move bide. He does nothing much for 2-3 games, and then out of nowhere he slaps people one after another.
Honestly this is probably my favourite bokoen Hoi4 video of all time, and will probably always be. The fighting in this video is the most intense i've ever seen in a Hoi game, even the endsieg mod looks tame compared to this. Great video, 10/10, would take my navy off strike force again.
Longest video yet. Hope you guys enjoy! Also can’t believe genkar stayed on Finland even though he was capped in 42.
Also don't get used to long videos. This one is close to 22 minutes because of the content in that specific game.
Edit: For those shitting on Thomas here’s some explanation. Thomas promised not to micro the eastern front because it was new USSR players. Thomas’s coop wasn’t up for the task alone(which also wasn’t fair and that’s on me) so after a year or two of him getting shit on, Thomas stepped in and helped.
Yesss
I'll make sure to cherish this episode then! Your scripts are always a treat, no matter how short or long they may be
Weakest and least determined Fin 😎
7 min and already 6k views ,BRO you GOD at this
I've been waiting for this bo
Japan and Italy's drug fuelled rants, all the minors being total doomers on the Eastern Front and Germany unplugging his keyboard is certainly an axis coalition huh
Honestly, it’s actually more functional and cohesive than the IRL axis coalition.
The mental image of Mussolini and Hirohito snorting lines of coke and shouting through a telegraph line for 4 years strait back and fourth while the Romanians are starving to death is a mental imagine I will never forget
He didn't unpluig his keyboard, he unplugged EVERYTHING
@@existinginaspace8347 while the fuhrer mistakenly thought war was lost, and got sunk in a submarine while trying to escape to Argentina
@@OlafJorigson Should have unplugged the life support as well xD
Thomas is the real mvp here he united the entire axis while barely having to play the game.
That'd be some fucking 6d chess here.
POV: You are the Japanese navy panicking in the Mediterranean while being chased by the entire British fleet, while German CAS is having a siesta in Spain
truly a Hoi4 moment
The spanish were fighting their damned hardest to get their siesta back from the Germans lmao
“HEEEEELLLPPPP MEEEEE!!!!!!”
-Admiral Yamamoto in the Mediterranean, circa 1944
the mental image of some luftwaffe pilots having some siesta hats and marraccas is just hilarious
I'm surprised Golden didn't keel over from an aneurism halfway through the war. Dudes blood pressure was in quadruple digits.
man's veins look like a firehose
Mean surprised there wasn't a knock on his front door after a concerned citizen calling 🤣🤣🤣
Dude's legit gonna have a heart attack at 28 at ths rate.
How has Golden NOT had a stress-induced heart attack by now?😬
Germany carried so hard smh. Can’t believe how little the other Axis members did. As if they just took a nap and stopped playing.
Did you see Germany's tank though? Didn't even need to micro those tanks.
@@ThePurplePeppy Yeah but they definetly saved it with their excellent air and infantry micro.
Exactly, act like it's ww1 but not even trying to make a breakthrough
@@ole6969
Not moving divisions?
*IT'S THE NEW META!!!*
Smh classic Hitler carry
It's like a wacky reverse-universe where the entire German general staff collapsed into a coma for 4 years while every other member of the axis chadded up and formed the A-Team, then immediately spend the next 10 minutes screaming at each other.
Nah, the German general staff (plus Hitler himself) was snorting tons and tons coke while all this was going on.
the pilot fell asleep at the wheel, the passengers take control and promptly start screaming at each other while desperately trying not to crash.
@@andrewhopkins886 they get the plane on a safe hight and then the pilot awakes, pushes a button which litterally explodes one engine and goes back to sleep
Admiral Yamamoto, General Graziani, General Grandes walk into a bar...
@@HugostarGames Then they gotta land on a busy highway due to the engine.
I love when bo is playing in the axis, because is like cartoon villains trying to conquer the world.
Danish Dick Dastardly 😄
Danish moment
Bo and Golden really are the comedic glue in this series
@@andrasbeke3012 throw in Jack for that acerbic wit we all know and love when he joins in on the chaos, but yes - Golden and Bo make for a wonderful Comedy Duo :D
@@andrasbeke3012 I think Brauns also vital but he kinda just vibes a lot
Goldens POV of this when Bo was telling him to Micro his navy was so funny, I wish Bo had used it, he's literally using the theatres to quickly flip between attacking Leningrad, then flipping to Dday then flipping to India to also attack the Soviets and he had to keep up such a fast rate
Wasn’t even asking to micro navy lol. Was asking for the simplest shit ever
Is there a link?
@@georgedarby6642 they get deleted all the time can you send a concrete link?
@@Thomaas551 www.twitch.tv/videos/1540585860 is the twitch
th-cam.com/video/KTM_J_vhhYc/w-d-xo.html is the stream archive upload if it gets deleted
@@Bokoen1 the one constant of the golden arc is that he has no idea how boat is float
The Allied Army: We weren’t expecting special forces.
The Japanese Army vibing in Europe: That’s the point, sir.
Japan banzai'd the entirety of Europe while Germany slept.
The only one who was special was Germany player
I bet the Soviets also didn’t think that Germany was so bad at micro
Germany was supplying the Special Needs forces
The Japanese troops in Europe:
“We wouldn’t have to fucking be here if the German High Command would actually do its job and command its army. Or do literally anything, for that matter”
Golden couldn't have screamed for help any louder or harder if he was actually being eaten alive. I couldn't stop laughing.
I guess he's in a well insulated room, or very detached house, or his neighbours gave up, seeing there wasn't a welfare knock on his front door 🤣🤣🤣
I just picture Golden as Emperor Hiroto in the bunker from downfall during his rants.
Somewhere in Normandy during WW2…
Allied Soldier: Sir, are you sure this is the right beach?
Allied General: Of course, why not?
Soldier: Cause those are Japanese guys shooting at us
Voice in the distance: Tenno Heika Banzai!
imagine being an american soldier who fought in the pacific getting sent to help liberate france only to see more japanese
@@deathstalker549 "No, not this. Not again..."
it's especially funny because IRL Germany had an Ost-Bataillone ("Eastern Battalion", made up of volunteers & conscripts from the USSR) on the D-day wall, and US soldiers captured at least 4 asians on Utah beach that were assumed to be Japanese. So there were probably some troops asking that question
“There has to be a million Siamese men on that beach!”
This was a great, cursed game. When Golden's hands disappeared and didn't put the navy on strike force he was microing Europe and India at the same time. Braun had to hold the Eastern Front for a year as Romania, and Bo kept repelling the D-Days. Golden and Bo screaming for air support is what the whole last hour of the game was like on stream. This was the Axis team's finest hour.
Did they win?
@@elijahswanson7255 at the end of the video, they show they won. As the allies forefeited by leaving
glorious.
Your words are gold
Golden has made a resurgence and Bo and Golden, while a dream team now, cannot do literally everything while being long, coastal nations, with limited industry and manpower, and two hands each, all by themselves. Even if they will try.
“We’re being trolled right now” Italian General Badoglio on trying to break out German Army Group North
"HELP MEEEE! HELP MEEEEE!!!' Commander of the Combined Fleet Admiral Yamamoto upon seeing 1,500 Allied planes closing in during the Battle of Ibiza Gulf.
Badoglio lol
@@A-O161 my fault
@@Sky_Guy I shouldn't be laughing this hard XD
Hitler just going full Joker watching as his allies try to help him and begging him to micro just watching the world burn.
If the Axis won this, I'm genuinely scared to see what was going on from the Allied POV
There’s a real chance you saw some drunk step father action when they realized they were robbed of victory
Considering one of them blew the suez early they might have had a UK version of Thomas. Besides that they ended up microing against 4 maybe 5 players at a time even as minors. Eventually they run out of hands
Yeah, if this much stuff went on at the Axis, and they won, I'm going to wonder if Hirohito wasn't the loudest screamer for help this game
@@jameswg13 UK and Thomas
It's insane that swimmy had no part to play this episode. His aura is so strong that it infected everyone anyways.
When I read the intro I said to myself: "that sounds like a Swimmy Germany". Was quite surprised when he didnt even feature in the entire video.
@@andrepinto1131 they were just trying to emulate swimmy by inhaling a warehouse worth of woodglue before the match
@@romanplays1 thomas just broke both his arms thats why he could not micro it all makes sense.... COPIUM
@@Annae_xs I legitimately think that he died after 1942....
@@Annae_xs you forget it was 2 people playing germany. neither micro'd any better than a woodpecker just smashing up the keyboard could.. my brother in christ it is you who is on copium
Imagine a room where you have Hirohito loosing his mind and screaming for help, while Missolinni is begging on his knees for Hitler (who's sitting at the corner of the room facing the wall doing nothing) to put up his Luftwaffe in the Med.
In the mean time, you have Franco, Boris and Miklos laughing at the situation. While the whole ship where they're having the meeting, is sinking.
And with romanian guy just being fireman all the way
And somehow they manage to kill Churchill, Roosvelt and De Valera
@@ЯрославЯковлев-ш8х The Romanian guy sees fire in the ship, starts bitching at the other bc there's fire in the ship and goes out when he sees an opportunity. That's Braun in a nutshell
this comment doesnt have enough attention.
Hitlers just having a brain hemorrage from overdosing on morphine and meth while looking at one of his university painting while Mussolini and Tojo are oiled up in gimp gear getting gangsta on the allies and Hirohito, Boris III and Antonescu rapidly play hot potato with a landmine tsar bomba on the AA line
I'm imagining the scene from the 3rd lotr, but instead it's mussolini as Gandalf seeing the Japanese, Chinese and siamese showing up as Rohan. Meanwhile Germany is the steward who just dies
Germany as Denethor makes perfect context for this game
Thomas' fingers being covered in oil explains why he couldn't micro
"Siam take your men down the left flank, Japan follow the banner down the center, Manchuko take your company down the right after you pass the coast. Forth and fear no allies. Arise, arise, riders of the Co-Prosperity sphere. Shovels shall be splintered, Guns shall be broken, a sore day a RED DAY AND THE SUN RISES"- Emperor Hirohito to the European Expeditionary Force
@@Kriegsdude I Understood That Reference 😎
"ABANDON YOUR POSTS!!! FLEE, FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!"
-Germany, probably
So in short:
Braun got told to save the Eastern Front, and he actually did. (So did everyone else, except Germany.)
Golden saved the Axis.
A co-op Germany did less than Genkars as Finland even though he capped in 42.
Bo formed the Italian Ghost Division.
And the rest of the Axis managed to hold Africa and the Eastern Front and multiple D-Days without German support.
What the actual fck.
I mean multiple people saved the eastern front. Like I didn’t include when I had to plug the center with 40 divisions. You can see them in the video though
@@Bokoen1 for a once, almost all of axis were gigachads
@@Bokoen1 Indeed, it was funny to see tho after coming from the video of him sending Germany radios instead of fuel and talking about the Romanian braaptrap.
@@АлпамысРустембек Except for Germany,
Whose entire high command was off snorting tons of cocaine.
@@Bokoen1 I'm assuming Thomas and his Second Player are banned from Majors now?
You know things are gonna be cursed when Bo is asking Braun to be the Fireman
Desperate situation calls for desperate measures
Golden screaming " I WILL STAB EVERY ALLIED SOLDIER WITH MY SWORD IF I HAVE TO" is just too hilarious yet entirely predictable.
Japanese army during ww2 in a nutshell
Braun needs a medal for holding the southern front while German tanks were just chilling behind the lines.
Braun was the real MVP. Actually reliable for once.
@@Blundabus1337not golden?
Golden 100% saved the day multiple times. If he hadn't brought his entire army to Europe, the Axis would have collapsed. If he hadn't helped to invade Russia, the Axis would have collapsed. If he hadn't moved his fleet into the Mediterranean, the Axis would have collapsed. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Golden deserves more positive credit for his role this game.
When Japan comes in and i hear Golden i felt a Winged Hussar moment of him
@@equilintogo5378 Reminds me of when he legit fought his way to Europe to save the Axis, carving his way through Asia and Asia Minor, dude gets so much shit but has the makings of a coked up hero lmao
But the real question is how didn’t the US invade him ?
He even took Paris.
@@superperroquet5841 considering we didn't hear about the American navy all game and how Japan even took Australia. The Americans probably didn't have a navy left
The Hungarians fought tooth and nail, defending Romania, killing DDay, glad I could carry so hard!
Together with Bulgaria in the North, we held off all Allied tanks on D-Day, while the Italians and Spanish took credit for the victory from the South
Germany: *Makes a promise to not micro during Barbarossa.*
The rest of the Axis: "You are a sad, strange little man. And you have our pity".
What do you even do if you don't micro the eastern front ?
@@popydev go afk
According to Bo, it was that the USSR players were new, so they wanted to handicap the situation a bit. Unfortunately, the German co-op simply wasn't up to the task, being new themselves, and needed help.
@@popydev macro and and air stuff.
Wow. Golden's emotions during this game mirrors the average league of legends player
He does play a lot of LoL
@@Bokoen1
Holy shit. that explains so much
@@drekbleh7081 His name is literally Golden Spatula
@John Smith I think D-DAY was said by swimmy playing the USSR in the hoi3 video
@@drekbleh7081 Golden is hardstuck high-diamond/low-master and is a Diana main
I don't know what's worse, the fact that from the start of Barbarossa Thomas did practically nothing the rest of the game causing the ensuing chaos or the fact that the Allies tried like 4 D-Days and lost every single one of them despite making enormous gains each time, all the while the Axis was in total chaos
Or that Italy didn't shoot Mussolini despite losing all his manpower to the point he was just one or two ranks from Scraping The Barrel.
Italy real life: worst Axis nation, soldiers run or retreat, made fun of, terrible weapons and low morale coupled with bad generals and politician, suffering defeat after defeat only to then become strong when fighting against the Axis
Italy this game: literal Chad to the the Virgin Germany, suffers more casualties in the war than Italy had on any war combined, won battle after battle with weapons that outmatched the Allies and never broke.
Thomas couldn't micro because they made a deal with the Soviet players that it would only be his co-op microing, since the Soviets were brand-new players and so having an experienced player curb stomp them would be BS.
@@cookiecraze1310 and turns out the soviets got heavy-micro'd against by Golden anyways huh
@@equilintogo5378 Even so, Golden was doing the work of two people if his, and others' comments are to be believed. Honestly I this Thomas should have pulled his Co-Op into a private call to work through how the microing was supposed to be done, since he was new and this was his first proper game.
Ah yes, my favourite Avengers that came together as a team to take down the Allies. The Axis Avengers
Despite all the arguing.
This axis coalition is still more functional and cohesive than the IRL one.
I’d say this was a hard fought, if cursed, axis victory.
Everybody: except for you Germany, you suck.
Imagine you’re an Allied soldier charging Normandy just to hear “BANZAI!” as thousands of Japanese charge back at you.
Allied soldier : running back to ship ASAP
@@No_Anime_No_Life. That guy who got rotated from the Pacific campaign to the invasion of France: Oh, Neptune
Allied soldier: goddammit 3 years forced to learn German for interrogation all wasted. Should've gone with Mickey and learner Jap.
Allied Soldier: F*CK THIS SH*T IM OUT!
Bo: “I’m going to blow up the Suez”
‘Golden didn’t like that.’
I just imagine the Japanese, Siamese, Manchuko, Italian, and Spanish armies collectively screaming non-stop as they climb on trains hauling ass between Western and Eastern Europe snuffing out Allied counter attacks only to repeat the process a couple weeks later when Germany collapses yet again on the opposite front.
All screaming in different languages not knowing what the guys on the same train are saying.
Meanwhile the Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians and probably Finnish exiles desperately hold back the Soviet forces.
there would really just be a lot of crying
@@USELESSDCK they probably had the gist of it.
I never thought I would live to see a day when Germany played by dressl isn’t the worse Germany
Iwo jima hehehehhe
Hell, at least he controlled his units. Its was bad micro, but still better then 4 tank in Greece for a months, and cas not over med
Thomas said he won't micro and it seemed like Genkar was playing half asleep
Average Germany
I honestly forgot about Dressl, what happened to him?
@@janmihalik2090 something something actual Nazi something something
This has to be your best video yet. I had to stop it multiple times due to laughing so much it hurt. Amazing stuff 👏
Alex you would have been a better Germany
Holy shit, I loved the storytelling of this episodes, I keep coughing with laughter.
Braun and Golden become the saviors and competent men of Europe. Golden even takes Paris. Then he pisses it away by letting Italy get invaded. Really kept getting me guessing on who was going to win that.
Whenever Golden starts talking about “Critical Thinking” you know shit has gone sideways
"Sometimes you need to show the bulge" - Bo 1940, referring to the Atlantic Wall defences
That sounds like something someone would do a battle over
Meanwhile Braun is doomguy on the Eastern Front holding off the endless hordes.
Braun was the forgotten hero of this game. He held the Southern Front with a collapsing Germany - every other Romania wouldve collapsed at that point but not him
@@mosesracal6758 Same with Italy. Complete reverse from both historical and AI versions. Even when forced back to just above Scraping The Barrel, still continues the fight defeating every enemy army it faces. Meanwhile, Japan defeats China and kills the American fleet, again a reverse from both historical and AI.
If college can't micro the side of a barn, Thomas can't micro the CN tower
He can't micro the fucking Burj Khalifa
That’s not how it works, the smaller it is the easier it is to micro
@@ihatesovietderp2268 no. It’s a reference to “Can’t hit the side of a barn,” as in shooting. The bigger the target, they easier it should be to “hit.”
@@ihatesovietderp2268 he can micro a freaking ant to
Japan: *defeats Chinese United Front*
Also Japan: *joins Axis United Front*
"Maybe I am a United Front member"
Always was
maybe the real United Front was the friends we made along the way
-The entire Axis trying to get Germany to micro
Germany: There is no war in Ba Sing Se
There were ups and downs in the story. Relationships were made and relationships were destroyed, there were Villains and there were Heroes. However, in the end one thing we can all agree on is where the fuck was Germany this game?
Right? Both germanys aren’t even saying anything
Germany made a very premature evacuation to Argentina lmao
Germany was snorting tons and tons of cocaine and drinking gallons vodka they captured from the Soviets.
@@ihatesovietderp2268 Yea I heard Thomas was possibly drunk so that explains him, but the other guy probably just shut down under the pressure
@@ihatesovietderp2268 Apparenly they promised to not micro the eastern form for some reason.
I’ll be honest this game has the emotions of a rollercoaster. I loved just watching every asset of the axis army being taken away. Like watching the Italian manpower just drain and the Japanese-Italian fleet be decimated.
Golden sounded like he was getting murdered irl when he was screaming like a madman for help in that naval battle.
I love how to achieve this victory every axis member melts their brain of cells just to win a Hoi game
Goldens micro in the game was the most insane I’ve seen in any hoi4 game. He was flickering between France and Iran microing both fronts at once it was crazy
Yeah it wasn't included but as I hear about it it really does put into context the whole situation
I really want to know, how does one truly fail to micro to such a degree that was seen in this game? Were the Germany players tired, incompetent, lazy or genuinely trolling?
Thomas sounded either intoxicated or having a hangover, so it was definitely something like that.
@@kylerowsley Why did they put a drunk player on germany? Even Swimmy would have done better lmao
Now that I think about it, would Swimmy do better than a drunk Thomas?
@@helixx4678 Yes because Swimmy attacks... Albeit sometimes when he shouldn't
@@helixx4678 Yes Swimmy wins if he activates his brain. But sadly he does that only half the time. Otherwise it is a hoi player with no hands against a hoi player with no brain.
Keep in mind these games could last until 3-4 in the morning. Could be that he was just super tired.
Germany after being carried by the entire rest of the axis: Alright guys, great team effort man we really pushed through it!!!
Thomas really be goin "ima head out" mid game and the axis somehow still pull off a victory
The ultimate clown car ride.
"We really pulled together at the end guys"
"Your braincell is fucking melting."
I Appreciate the work to put this longer video together, loved it. Was having a bit of a rough day but 20+ minute Hoi video makes it better : )
Best episode ever. Vik did a great job on the script and honestly 10/10 on IMBD. Phenomenal story telling kept you glued to the edge of your seat. Battle of the Bastards wish it was this good.
True af
Wtf was up with Germany in this game? People were malding at them and germany literally says nothing. It's like they were deadass afk as Germany
they forgor to micro the conversation
@@SpiffSpaff implying it was unintentional
Pressure I suppose. Getting shouted at for hours probably made them afraid to do or say anything, locking up their game performance. I say this because they were still relatively talkative at the start, but by the end they were dead silent. It's really evident in the large Mediterranean naval battle, where not a single word was spoken despite everyone screaming at them.
There's just something about the "conversations" that Bo and Golden get into that just make me smile. Good effort guys. You earned that win.
THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE HOI4 VID BO!
I'm literally crying from laughing and smiling in the entire episode. Golden doing everything to save the european theatre and throwing because you 'accidentally' planned to blow the suez is the funniest shit I've seen in years.
Thank you for making my day!
Golden: “I’m the worst hoi4 player!”
Swimmy: “no, I’m the worst hoi4 player!”
Thomas: *hold my beer*
On a technical skill level, Golden is actually one of their best players (I'd rank him similar to Bo). Golden just likes trying wild new strategies instead of always doing the same thing, and I can't blame him for that. It's boring using the same exact same strategy every single game. On bad days, this comes across as trolling, but when the crazy ideas work out it's glorious.
@@trapical And swimmy... flips a coin. if it lands on head, best play in History. If not...
@@trapical and for some reason, his Germany games seem to be shit while his games as minors and Japan tend to be much better. Probably because those countries aren’t the center of the faction, so they have room to experiment.
@@kingandcountry1242 I saw another comment that said that Golden apparently does better when he doesn't have to do a bunch of teamwork stuff, hence why he does so well as Japan.
Thomas: look at what they need to mirror a fraction of my power.
Hoi4 MP is the best series on TH-cam history
FR
IKR
Give it a Oscar
No lieeee
SO TRUE
I can't believe that Golden finally took Paris. I'm so proud of him and how far he's come.
And went for Moscof after that... as Japan!
Reminds of that time him and Phillips had a shouting match about taking Paris in the WWI mod lol
Golden Japan games are really something special. I legitimately think that he would solo sealion as Japan if you ask him.
Edit: Seeing the bit with the navy. I retract the second half of the above comment, but I'm keeping the first half. Seeing Golden as Japan outperform Golden as Germany in Europe despite all his stuff being on the wrong side of the planet will never not be great.
Edit 2:
8:22
Unknown: “Golden?”
Golden: “What?”
Unknown: “Why are you just [unintelligible]?”
Golden: “I’m going to fucking FRANCE”
Unknown: “You have to keep something [unintelligible]”
Golden: “NO i canNOT”
In the most recent game on stream, Golden became the first and only player to fully capitulate Mexico, the USA, and Canada all at the same time as Japan. Fr his Japan games are always a wild ride.
Golden thrives when he has to do as little teamwork as possible. He's a godlike Japan and a really good US, but fucking terrible Germany and UK.
The context for the navy stuff was that he was flipping through Leningrad, D-Day, and India all at once trying to save everything. He really really did not have the hands to even try.
This is probably the best bokoen video to date. Between Thomas completely throwing the game and Italy and Japan carrying Europe on their backs with blood, sweat and absolute sheer adrenaline while Spain held Africa and helped in D day, Hungary helped D day and the eastern front and Romania basically solo held the eastern front. FOR OVER A YEAR. The entire axis squad chadded up so god damn hard and if germany was at least doing anything other than sit still they would've dominated that game
Bo: "Someone has to micro SOMETHING"
Morgan Freeman: "In actuality, they did not micro anything."
Also, Goldens epic rant at the 7min mark almost felt like I was listening to a WWE promo.
This is the best episode I've seen during my YEARS of watching this series every day a new one comes out. An absolute rollercoaster of emotions with a constant uncertainty of which driving force would prevail, the german incompetence or the combined axis resolve even with all the drama.
10/10
Yeah, this is probably Bo's best Hoi4MP in a nutshell ever. The arguing, the throwing, the back and forth invasions and the seemingly impossible victory this CLUSTERFUCK OF AN AXIS got. It's just unbelievably good
The fact that Braun is the voice of reason is amazing, he did his job well while listening to that chaos
This might be the most chaotic axis game ever
And the most hilarious one that for sure
@@kazukihoshizora9894 Definitely lmao
Its not a might, this is by far the most chaotic axis game ever
@@mosesracal6758 and it's very rare for golden to scream to such an extent, i think the one i remeber the most is the hoi 3 one, sorry if i remeber it wrong but that's video i placed 1st on the funny list of the channel until this video come out
@@kazukihoshizora9894 no, this doesn't surpass Rommel's sex force or the Romanian brap trap
The entire Axis pitching together and giving their all despite Germany throwing the game is just so wholesome. Wholesome yelling.
Goldens complete explosion and “fine, I’ll do it myself” attitude made this one of the best episodes in recent months
"There is no German army! You're getting the Japanese army this time!"
I mean, tbh, he always has this attitude of "we can still win this guys". Only this time it really worked
You know with the exception of Germany this was the most competent axis ever. If there was ever a way to fight a coalition war it was this.
Japan uses Manchukuo to unite China and help Siam take India to Iran, takes Australia, and then gets shipped off to Europe to help repel a D-Day invasion in the West as well as fight in the East. Oh and of course guard Italy in the Mediterranean. And of course Siam and China are helping in the East as well.
And in Europe you have Spain helping out in the East as well, Italy guarding the Atlantic and fighting off D-Day invasions, and Romania basically holding that Eastern front mostly by itself until reinforcements arrived from East Asia.
I don't know how else you genuinely try to team up to take on the world because this is how you do it.
Thought this was a full episode from 2018. We've been blessed.
The Endgame reference where Japan comes to help the Axis in the final battle was a nice addition to the script. Bravo Bo!
12:46: Golden finally got paris
all these years
This was a fucking treat. The Golden and Bo rants really remind me of the older videos in the series, back when everybody was screaming at each other. Good stuff.
Fantastic longer vid, love it. Thanks for the hard work Bo, it was amazing !
I consider this video a direct sequel to "They can't D-Day" due to both their long lengths, improbable axis victories, and starring Golden as the main character.
Watching Goldens stream on this was insane, he kept pulling shit from his ass and it was working everytime
another amazing video from Bo😂 Side-note: did anyone else find it super eerie that Germany was almost completely radio silent? You'd expect there to be trolling, malding, and banter from them, but no, there was nothing.
3:58
Bo be like: "get off the copium and snap back to reality!"
You know it’s must’ve been rough because the Germany country balls appeared a max of 10 times in a 20 minute episode
Germany: fails to hold Europe
Japan: FINE!! I'll do it myself!
This is literally every axis member merging their single braincells into one collective consciousness, only to have it tear itself apart as they collectively lose their shit, only to reunite and pull off the final victory!
20 minute episode?
Now this puts a smile on my face
Could have been 2 hours, this game had that much content.
This is still a higher level of coordination and teamwork than the Axis had in real life.
that is no joke. it blows my mind when you see a ww2 map and its just Germany in Europe and north Africa. how people dont realize their were 6-12 axis powers depending on how your counting is crazy to me.
Still higher? The level of coordination was arguably better than that of the Allies. For all of their screaming, this was a very coordinated team even if Germany just decided to completely stop caring about using its army m
10:50 funniest shit I've heard in awhile this needs to become a meme
21:20 i dont think brest has the physical land area to fit that many men, you can shoot artillery in any general direction towards brest and kill like 100 allied soldiers with each shell
i was expecting a coupe from all the minours too take germanys stuff but this ended better then expected. Hands down the MVP Award goes to Golden for saving you guys. Keep uo the work lads your vid are always the funniest when it comes to you guys'
banter.
This reminds me of the time Hitler was out cold after taking some hard drugs while the Allies were landing in Normandy.
And he had previously ordered all matters concerning the Atlantic wall would have to go through him first.
So everyone was panicking on trying to decide whether to wake him up or not while the troops at the beaches were panicking with no direction for a bit.
Honestly props to all the non-Germany Axis players(even Finland cause it wasn't really their fault they collapsed). They're the most competent I've ever seen them
This is still one of my favorite Bokoen videos. You know you are in for a rollercoaster ride when Golden Japan rides to rescue the European Axis before the vid's midway mark.
A triumph of the human spirit 10/10
What the fuck, 22 minutes? I haven't seen a video this long since Palden Norbu won singlehandedly for the Axis as Panama.
You know that it’s truly a Golden moment when he backs off of something for literally 2 seconds and almost costs everybody the game
I think somebody unplugged Germany's controls, and they were microing their asses off not realizing not a single input registered
Half of the voice chat yelling orders at each other at the same time while a sole voice in the background repeating "Bo Biden" is peak comedy imo
I have never truely felt what it as to lose a shred of your sanity until this game
7:50 has the same energy as “I HAVE WORKED LIKE A DOG, DAY AND NIGHT”
The axis got Dankus, Bo, and Golden - I dont know why this shit is so stressful and the worst thing is, Golden is the one carrying this game lmao
This might be my favorite HOI4 in a nutshell you've ever made. Great job on this one!
I swear, golden is always casting the pokemon move bide.
He does nothing much for 2-3 games, and then out of nowhere he slaps people one after another.
WOW! Glad my Soviet game brought this beast of a video.
Golden taking Paris after so long. I'm loving the character progression in these scripts
Honestly this is probably my favourite bokoen Hoi4 video of all time, and will probably always be. The fighting in this video is the most intense i've ever seen in a Hoi game, even the endsieg mod looks tame compared to this. Great video, 10/10, would take my navy off strike force again.