when germans were signing their surrender, there were diplomats from major Ally countries - USSR, USA, UK and France Upon seeing diplomat from France, german leader proclaimed: "These also defeated us???"
If I remember correctly, I did a test to see when a country (IA controlled) switches ideology. It needs 60.50% (the game makes you see it 61) and the country will flip ideology. If you read this, try it out. Knowing this mechanic (if I am actually correct, which I’m not completely sure) may help a lot in other videos. Keep up yourself, polish man!
This is beautiful, at last no order 66. Was good planned (except the part of Poland), and also unlucky. Loved to watch a good straight game with no order 66.
I think it was a combination of 2+3. Your plan was sound on paper, but with your nation been in exile, it came down to timing and relying on the AI. Your boost to Democratic popularity in Italy worked, but just at the wrong time. The Allied AI left all that manpower in Africa, which essentially helped Germany defeat the Soviets. Had there been a second front in France or Italy, your fortunes may have been different on this play through. Great videos, your humour keeps me coming back! :)
Challenges: 1. As a panama reform gran Colombia. 2. As Mexico create Mexican empire. 3. As a Sinkiang recreate Turkestan. 4. As a Austria make most of major nations neutral(make their ideology non-aligned) 5. As a Afghanistan create Ghurid Sultanate. 6. As Iceland recreate Viking empire. 7. As a Ireland form Celt empire. 8. As Paraguay create Inca empire.
definitely a case of germany being OP in man the guns. I didn't seriously start playing past 1940 until man the guns as I started achievement hunting. I havent seen the allies win a single time. Even with me holding brabant and holland in the netherlands, they still managed to accomplish nothing. kind of annoying and hopefully will be fixed in the next update
Theres also another way to keep manpower too. Move your divisions to somewhere else like france or uk, and clicked disband once and wait. After you capitulate click ok (at the second box that asks if you are sure or not) and later you can train divisions and deploy them to the centre of london. Also if you don’t have convoys there is a way to transport divisions without convoys too.
I did appreciate this video, for the most part that this is the first video I have seen of someone showing a defeat. Everything doesn't have to be a win. With this, I can see of what not to do, such the boosting of popularity during a coup. A great video.
Some times I imagine a modern day world in these insane challenges just imagine being a historian and find the rise of democracy in The world was in major part due to the lux
I have a challenge for you. 1. Play as Ethiopia 2. Play on Elite difficulty (it doesn't matter if you play on regular, I'll accept it) 3. Strengthen Italy to max. 4. Annex all of Italian territories.
this was an amazing video! I'd wager that if you tried again, it would go better. The plan seems sound and it'd probably work given multiple attempts, and while I'd love to see that, It's probably a lot of not-so-fun work staring at the screen waiting for plans to come to fruition so don't push yourself to do another video like this if you don't want to. Personally, this weird wacky approach to the game you take in your challenges is some of the best HOI4 content on TH-cam imo and I'd love to see more!
C. Does seem to be a big problem here, but perhaps better timing with the coups and more micro to lessen the chance that they flip inappropriately would have helped to some extent. It also seems like this highlights some things that Paradox either hasn't considered or hasn't figured out yet, like that chance to accidentally flip a country but keep them in the faction and war when a coup was in progress. OTOH, I could see them being worried about some exploit of staging coups to lock governments in place by never having the coup actually fire, but that seems a bit too convoluted compared to the obvious problem encountered here.
Communist Megaslavia but you must defeat the Axis (except for Japan because that’s annoying) and not control Eastern Russia (anything past the Ural Mountains). Also you must make sure Republican Spain wins the civil war and France becomes the French Commune. I think this is a cool challenge because it is somewhat difficult because you will be neighboring two fascist countries (after Anschluss, if you let that happen) and you don’t border the Soviets or any members of the Comintern. It also would be cool to see France not die so fast for once and perhaps Spain be useful. Also I know you have done Megaslavia before but you also have done multiple challenges of the same country before and I think this challenge forces you to adopt a much more difficult and interesting approach to achieving the objective. Also I like watching Yugoslavia.
Ideas: -Start italy coup right before danzig or war -Boost popularity in germany anyway, goebbel's effects are reduced the higher fascist support they have anyway. You could potentially cheese them with a 30% democratic coup or at least hurt their stability -Try to get enough warscore to ask for iceland/african territories later on
points 1 and 2 won't work. Before the war Italy has too much stability There is currently a bug that causes your own advisors to be immune to political party support nerfs (Goebbels gets max efficiency always)
@@Taureor I did a run through myself and I've found that the following leads to a greater degree of success: -Getting the coup in Italy off (I started planning the coup immediately after ww2 broke out) is essential if they don't flip before the war. The allies will very quickly take Africa and the ME and despite their poor AI will eventually help out in Europe. -The Japan coup needs to go off very soon after Japan declares on the Philippines and preferably before China capitulates. Very RNG based as best results are achieved when China is still alive. This usually brings China into the war against the Axis. -Nationalist spain needs to have popularity boosted asap. Best results if they flip before they're called into the war. -ask for iceland asap, use factories to build weapons to prepare eventual coups in Romania/Hungary/Yugoslavia, depending on how the game is going and which are in the Axis. Coincide those coups with strong allied pushes into Europe I haven't been able to synch it 100%, but those seem to be critical parts of making this plan work. Axis is just crazy strong right now. Japan always goes down easily but even with an italian coup in sicily the allies just never gain ground in Europe. Some things I've considered: -Perhaps portugal can be made to join the allies if their ideology is flipped. I'm not sure this would have a significant impact, but the UK does have a decision to invite them. -If nationalist spain flips ideology instead of joining the axis (which seems to be rare), they may join the allies.
Can you try liberating African colonies as a communist South Africa? They have a focus path for that. Seems fun to me, and it's prety damn hard since you have to fight both Allies and the Axis.
Can you do a regular Luxembourg 1936 challenge? I’d like to see how you can form the Benelux from the decisions. And it’s impossible to survive as Luxembourg when you’re fully encircled
Taureor Yes advisor is the problem but bitter loser just boosts this problem significantly so even two countries cant do much against germany, but if two country boosts another country with a demagogue, they can flip that country. And if germany doesnt gets that demagogue, you cannot increase democratic support like 0,10 percent a day.
I think it definitely didn’t work out in your favor with the AI. However, still super entertaining, and I honestly was starting to wonder if you ever didn’t succeed, so now that I know it’s possible I am even more excited for your future challenges.
Also it's really refreshing to watch a failed attempt at something for once. If there were more of them, it would make the videos more suspenseful as we don't know if you'll win or not
He probably meant Finland. ;P They seemed to stay neutral in this scenario. I'm not sure how that's related to Italy but it's still the most logical explanation I can think.
hey taureor, id really like to see you play the endsieg mod in 1945 and try to end the allies and comintern as germany, no need for a world conquest anyway once u beat those two, hope you see this, other than that thanks for investing so much time on HOI4 and listening to everyone's suggestions, i think it's fair to say that you're by far one of the best HOI4 channels out there (in my opinion the best), good luck and dont give up, maybe your son can come up with great strategies to help you!! :D
THE AI NEEDS TO BE FIXED! It doesn't matter who you play, the AI takes forever to do anything in Europe, and never will push through to Germany unless you GIVE them the front line, and even then, they either stack WAAAY too many troops there, or they don't put enough. I was playing as France trying to stay free from Germany, I managed, but I was allied to America and Britian, and only started seeing them after I lost Paris in 1942. Managed to win, but I had almost no manpower at the end of it all, and half of the allied forces where in America or the Atlantic ocean. they just hang out in the Atlantic for some reason. Slowly getting sunk by U-boats.
17:06 I've seen this happen before when I tried to play as Persia.... The Germans have did the war w/ USSR focus, but did not attack (until I fought the USSR). Same for the Soviets when they did war w/ Germany. I assume it had something to do with their improving relations, as both my Persia game and your game had either the Germans or Soviets improve relations with each other.
next time : "I try to beat Germany without launching the game"
just learn programing and mod the game :D
@@sunnydeathray4786 he just goes and storms the Bundestag.
He just takes over some nukes and nukes the bundestag irl
If there’s no one left to say you didn’t complete the challenge then you completed it, right?
Next time: " i try to beat germany but on a dos computer with a gameboy as a monitor and no mouse"
Taureor: Today I will be beating germany
Everyone: Oh, as what country?
Taureor: no
Wait, that's illegal
Ye
This comment is funny but why are there only 3 comments and 2k likes
@@ctggames320 maybe it's not really funny
24:24 "Russian Federation"
"Democratic"
"No elections"
Just like irl
”Just like the simulations”
**Rasputin intensifies**
Putin approves
Just like in real life XD
“That was a baby sneeze”
-Taureor
Hi
He’s too dangerous to be kept alive
Too late, he has already made an offspring
The only thing we can do is pray to god that when he takes power that he is on our side
Its treason, then.
I need him!
Henceforth, he shall be known as Darth
Taureor.
Your son is incredibly knowledgable in historic events! Your son's inputs were incredibly insightful and helped enrich the video ;D
Ok that was funny lol
His son should be nicknamed "McArthur 2" I mean, he's literally better than him
I kept thinking that I need to check on the baby.
Who knew his son is a Trotskyite
I wonder where he gets that from...
These challenges are getting insane, lol. Next you'll be declaring war on every country as Tannu Tuva and winning.
I vote this the next challenge
He already did that one.
He defeated Ussr as tannu tuva without using releasing tannu tuva trick ;)
@@Grif2501 no he did not. he did tanu tuva conquer ussr but not the world
Don’t encourage him
Breaking news: „Insane Polish man takes over Luxemburg, gets invaded, takes over the world anyway“
HAHAHAHA
The Absolute Madman
In the meanwhile the Russian Federation has formed as a bunch of random patches on the map.
Nothing can stop the Polish Man
Switzerland: literally stages coup in Hungary to make sure they're the only relevant neutral country
yes
I've never seen an AI staging a coup in this game before. To be honest I had no idea they could do that.
Me neither. Also kinda pointless since I'm pretty sure they can't boost ideology
I've seen it happen before. Ironically, it was also a democratic coup in hungary, but by Australia.
@@GamePilLP he was already boosting ideology in the video
@@josephgamal3135 he meant that the AI doesn't boost ideology.
@@theexam7394 Yes, but Hungary was already ideology-boosted, so maybe AI is designed to give that final push
Imagine getting defeated by a country you already killed
See Napoleon
Free France?
when you lose the battle of luxembourg by five o'clock and win it back by seven
when germans were signing their surrender, there were diplomats from major Ally countries - USSR, USA, UK and France
Upon seeing diplomat from France, german leader proclaimed: "These also defeated us???"
OOF
Switzerland staging a coup is the second most mind-blowing thing that I have ever seen a neutral AI do.
whats the first
@@PerseagatunaGhandi going nuclear…
Switzerland staging a coup in Hungary represents the accuracy of historical events of hoi4
12:13 the german troops arent looking alright at all
Attacking Luxembourg gives them massive seizures.
That Pervitin's kicking in
Play as Japan, free Korea, then play as Korea
You'd like that wouldn't you
You should add that he has to go communist
Why did the last north korean dictator die?
Because he got a bit kim jong ill
are you trying to get?
Get well soon 😂
When ruling a country is too easy
Luxemburg is a country?
@@theexam7394 yes
@@theexam7394 Are you joking ?
@@ertyertyloide5778 what do you think?
I thought you were joking , but we both know that some people on internet are dumb enought to say that...
Taureor: Silly brits
The spiffing brit: *Am i a joke to you?*
I can make it funnier, as a Brit myself.
Spiffing Brit: *earl grey anger*
@@completelyforgettable1130 XD
@@kaiserreichmapping805 it's bloody half one in the morning and it's prime time for my humour
I am british
@@applebottomjeans04 ok
Hungary *won't get involved in war because of the rise of democracy
Switzerland: I'm about to start this mans whole career
firts time i see ai doing coups
@@johncarter449 ikr. Never saw that as well
The one time Switzerland decides to actually do something 😂
Protecting government: We will keep you safe during the war , leave this to us
Taureor: Hold my beer
22:44
"How is your manpower and stuff? It's all quite alright. Especially stuff" 😂
"if we flip Italy democratic the Germans will be deprived of a good ally"
[laughs in Greek]
[laughs in Yugoslav]
[laughs in Husky]
In the game, Italy is actually pretty good at handling the naval war in the mediterranean and helping germany kill france.
Me: Aw man, I've capitulated, guess It's over
Taureor: Hold my beer
Luxembourg is a secret superpower, Germany doesn't know who they're challenging
Avery the Cuban-American Hello again Avery!
"I love democracy"-chancellor Palpatine
Mr Normree I love the Republic
The Nova renaissance Oh really? It was Palpatine, he said it in Episode 2/4
Nobody knows who the senate is...
If I remember correctly, I did a test to see when a country (IA controlled) switches ideology. It needs 60.50% (the game makes you see it 61) and the country will flip ideology. If you read this, try it out. Knowing this mechanic (if I am actually correct, which I’m not completely sure) may help a lot in other videos. Keep up yourself, polish man!
Idk why i everytime make united kindom fascist and they are british empire but its useless cuz they are in allies already so
Im, supid
今日kirito nightcore No, you are stupid
This is beautiful, at last no order 66. Was good planned (except the part of Poland), and also unlucky. Loved to watch a good straight game with no order 66.
Your defense of Luxembourg for that long was like a scuffed Battle of Verdun lmao
I think it was a combination of 2+3. Your plan was sound on paper, but with your nation been in exile, it came down to timing and relying on the AI. Your boost to Democratic popularity in Italy worked, but just at the wrong time. The Allied AI left all that manpower in Africa, which essentially helped Germany defeat the Soviets. Had there been a second front in France or Italy, your fortunes may have been different on this play through. Great videos, your humour keeps me coming back! :)
Trotsky: *Survives an assassination attempt*
Baby Taureor: *angry baby noises*
Great, now do it as Luxembou- wait..
Tannu tuva?
Bhutan
Play the drop the L in Liberia challenge vanilla conquer the Iberian penicula to win you must be at peace
The logical next step would be playing a country that never existed.
...Like Denmark
Or Finland
Or Australia
Me: Taureor, who are we fighting against today?
Taureor: Yes
No one:
Taureor: I try to beat Germany without a PC
Challenges:
1. As a panama reform gran Colombia.
2. As Mexico create Mexican empire.
3. As a Sinkiang recreate Turkestan.
4. As a Austria make most of major nations neutral(make their ideology non-aligned)
5. As a Afghanistan create Ghurid Sultanate.
6. As Iceland recreate Viking empire.
7. As a Ireland form Celt empire.
8. As Paraguay create Inca empire.
"My son seems disatisfied that Trotsky survived the assassination attempt" lmao I laughed so hard at that part
definitely a case of germany being OP in man the guns. I didn't seriously start playing past 1940 until man the guns as I started achievement hunting. I havent seen the allies win a single time. Even with me holding brabant and holland in the netherlands, they still managed to accomplish nothing. kind of annoying and hopefully will be fixed in the next update
Germany already was OP even before MtG anyways. XD
I saw allies wins when i was usa and dropped 5 nuclear bombs and 500 devisions tanks and marines in normandy
:D
10:50 XDDDDD
"That was the baby sneeze"
Theres also another way to keep manpower too. Move your divisions to somewhere else like france or uk, and clicked disband once and wait. After you capitulate click ok (at the second box that asks if you are sure or not) and later you can train divisions and deploy them to the centre of london. Also if you don’t have convoys there is a way to transport divisions without convoys too.
I like that you showed that you failed, you learn more from failures then you do for success. Thanks for the upload.
I did appreciate this video, for the most part that this is the first video I have seen of someone showing a defeat. Everything doesn't have to be a win. With this, I can see of what not to do, such the boosting of popularity during a coup.
A great video.
*the true polish war*
hurt Germany from the inside
Some times I imagine a modern day world in these insane challenges just imagine being a historian and find the rise of democracy in The world was in major part due to the lux
This.. is too perfect
Good morning class, today were going to learn about how Luxembourg caused the biggest democratic uprising in the world
I have a challenge for you.
1. Play as Ethiopia
2. Play on Elite difficulty (it doesn't matter if you play on regular, I'll accept it)
3. Strengthen Italy to max.
4. Annex all of Italian territories.
@@Redicon388 no it isn't
22:44 “how is your manpower”
>all adults serve, 2.6 million left
“It’s quite alright”
this was an amazing video! I'd wager that if you tried again, it would go better. The plan seems sound and it'd probably work given multiple attempts, and while I'd love to see that, It's probably a lot of not-so-fun work staring at the screen waiting for plans to come to fruition so don't push yourself to do another video like this if you don't want to. Personally, this weird wacky approach to the game you take in your challenges is some of the best HOI4 content on TH-cam imo and I'd love to see more!
Next video idea: Beat Germany without turning on your PC
3 reasons:
> Don't flip poland
> Have more luck with the Italy flip
> and ALLIED AI simply sucks
Exiled Luxenbourg president and his child destroy German front.
C. Does seem to be a big problem here, but perhaps better timing with the coups and more micro to lessen the chance that they flip inappropriately would have helped to some extent.
It also seems like this highlights some things that Paradox either hasn't considered or hasn't figured out yet, like that chance to accidentally flip a country but keep them in the faction and war when a coup was in progress.
OTOH, I could see them being worried about some exploit of staging coups to lock governments in place by never having the coup actually fire, but that seems a bit too convoluted compared to the obvious problem encountered here.
Yugoslavia can actually give Croatia a degree of autonomy through a focus which leads to them being liberated as a puppet.
Challenge idea, beat italy as ethiopia
Italy didn't take the opportunity to be the good guys
Luxembourg, in exile: Right, I'll do you for that.
Switzerland: What are you going to do? Bleed on me?
Could you make a challenge in which Argentina makes an annexation to all of South America? that would be great
I learn so much about the game when you tell your plans, please more of this👍🙂
I would love to see you try this again
Communist Megaslavia but you must defeat the Axis (except for Japan because that’s annoying) and not control Eastern Russia (anything past the Ural Mountains). Also you must make sure Republican Spain wins the civil war and France becomes the French Commune. I think this is a cool challenge because it is somewhat difficult because you will be neighboring two fascist countries (after Anschluss, if you let that happen) and you don’t border the Soviets or any members of the Comintern. It also would be cool to see France not die so fast for once and perhaps Spain be useful. Also I know you have done Megaslavia before but you also have done multiple challenges of the same country before and I think this challenge forces you to adopt a much more difficult and interesting approach to achieving the objective. Also I like watching Yugoslavia.
Finally a real Challenge
Ideas:
-Start italy coup right before danzig or war
-Boost popularity in germany anyway, goebbel's effects are reduced the higher fascist support they have anyway. You could potentially cheese them with a 30% democratic coup or at least hurt their stability
-Try to get enough warscore to ask for iceland/african territories later on
points 1 and 2 won't work.
Before the war Italy has too much stability
There is currently a bug that causes your own advisors to be immune to political party support nerfs (Goebbels gets max efficiency always)
@@Taureor I did a run through myself and I've found that the following leads to a greater degree of success:
-Getting the coup in Italy off (I started planning the coup immediately after ww2 broke out) is essential if they don't flip before the war. The allies will very quickly take Africa and the ME and despite their poor AI will eventually help out in Europe.
-The Japan coup needs to go off very soon after Japan declares on the Philippines and preferably before China capitulates. Very RNG based as best results are achieved when China is still alive. This usually brings China into the war against the Axis.
-Nationalist spain needs to have popularity boosted asap. Best results if they flip before they're called into the war.
-ask for iceland asap, use factories to build weapons to prepare eventual coups in Romania/Hungary/Yugoslavia, depending on how the game is going and which are in the Axis. Coincide those coups with strong allied pushes into Europe
I haven't been able to synch it 100%, but those seem to be critical parts of making this plan work. Axis is just crazy strong right now. Japan always goes down easily but even with an italian coup in sicily the allies just never gain ground in Europe. Some things I've considered:
-Perhaps portugal can be made to join the allies if their ideology is flipped. I'm not sure this would have a significant impact, but the UK does have a decision to invite them.
-If nationalist spain flips ideology instead of joining the axis (which seems to be rare), they may join the allies.
The most frustrating thing you could try in HOI4 is making the AI competent, that is what this challenge was.
Your plan was fine and was, to a large degree, working. The classic Hearts of Iron IV Allied AI just deep-dicked you, as always.
Tuareor: somehow we are still alive
The surrounding German troops: *extreme spazz time*
Can you do a New Zealand game an try to do a challenge maybe against the British or just annex everything?
I love seeing a video where not everything is a success. Much more fun to see this imo
Can you try liberating African colonies as a communist South Africa? They have a focus path for that. Seems fun to me, and it's prety damn hard since you have to fight both Allies and the Axis.
So exactly why are we financing coups all over the world?
Prime Minister of Luxembourg: good question
İ think you should make part 2 of this exiled Luxembourg world conquest
Start as Sweden, recreate the Sweden empire, and then take st.petersburg.
Wow, he actually lost a challange, never would've seen that one coming lol
He did say it was partially a challenge while partially an experiment.
11:07 the ai spazzing made it look like he was shooting the fastest gun ever
Can you do a regular Luxembourg 1936 challenge? I’d like to see how you can form the Benelux from the decisions. And it’s impossible to survive as Luxembourg when you’re fully encircled
A Taureor proverb says "It's Not My Problem"
I'd love to see a winning run of this, just to see if it's actually possible...
I'd love to see you try this again now with the new DLCs.
Did you just call Italy a "Good ally"?
3:20
Excuse me?
The main reason for not boosting germany is germany’s bitter loser modifier
The advisor is the real problem - they are locked to 100% support after a while unless you boost as multiple countries,
Taureor Yes advisor is the problem but bitter loser just boosts this problem significantly so even two countries cant do much against germany, but if two country boosts another country with a demagogue, they can flip that country.
And if germany doesnt gets that demagogue, you cannot increase democratic support like 0,10 percent a day.
You can feel free to upload some of your failures, they are funny to see and that means more content which is great :D
US & UK: We have the strongest Navy in the world!
Also Allies:
Let us sit in Africa and do nothing.
I think it definitely didn’t work out in your favor with the AI.
However, still super entertaining, and I honestly was starting to wonder if you ever didn’t succeed, so now that I know it’s possible I am even more excited for your future challenges.
Also it's really refreshing to watch a failed attempt at something for once. If there were more of them, it would make the videos more suspenseful as we don't know if you'll win or not
Taureor, be careful with starting coups in Poland. You live there.
Meanwhile, Switzerland: I'm going to make Hungary Axis while being neutral.
I'd like to see another attempt at this. Even failing, it was pretty impressive
I didnt even mind annexing luxembourg in my world conquest
"Germany will be deprived of a good ally"
Wait... How does Italy turning Democratic deprive Germany of a *good* ally?
He probably meant Finland. ;P They seemed to stay neutral in this scenario.
I'm not sure how that's related to Italy but it's still the most logical explanation I can think.
hey taureor, id really like to see you play the endsieg mod in 1945 and try to end the allies and comintern as germany, no need for a world conquest anyway once u beat those two, hope you see this, other than that thanks for investing so much time on HOI4 and listening to everyone's suggestions, i think it's fair to say that you're by far one of the best HOI4 channels out there (in my opinion the best), good luck and dont give up, maybe your son can come up with great strategies to help you!! :D
good to see Italy is still just doing what they do best
screwing over everything by switching sides LOL
Is it bad that I listen to your videos to fall asleep your voice is very soothing
THE AI NEEDS TO BE FIXED! It doesn't matter who you play, the AI takes forever to do anything in Europe, and never will push through to Germany unless you GIVE them the front line, and even then, they either stack WAAAY too many troops there, or they don't put enough. I was playing as France trying to stay free from Germany, I managed, but I was allied to America and Britian, and only started seeing them after I lost Paris in 1942. Managed to win, but I had almost no manpower at the end of it all, and half of the allied forces where in America or the Atlantic ocean. they just hang out in the Atlantic for some reason. Slowly getting sunk by U-boats.
Taureor: I'm going to be Luxembourg in hoi4.
Taureor's son: ArRgHhH
17:06
I've seen this happen before when I tried to play as Persia.... The Germans have did the war w/ USSR focus, but did not attack (until I fought the USSR). Same for the Soviets when they did war w/ Germany. I assume it had something to do with their improving relations, as both my Persia game and your game had either the Germans or Soviets improve relations with each other.
“Neutral my ass”
How good are you at this game?
Taureor: yes
Nice video! these challenges look very cool but unfortunately most of them require DLCs to unlock some focus trees or features
I have NEVER seen Switzerland ever stage a coup before
Me: Can't beat germany as the US
Taureor: Beats them with exiled luxemburg
21:41 neutral my a** 😂
Really good vid bro! Love to see more "fails"
I like that you posted a video that you didn't win in.
Good lessons were learned from this!