My understanding is you should consider kaiseredux as ‘chaos’ mode. Sometimes it can be better because of all the discontinued narrative threads/focus trees interacting. Therefore you get a more different story, but at the risk of bad chaos, a lot of the modifiers are unbalanced a lot of the factions can be unbalanced, so you could win easily taking a meme path or be destroyed as greece because Germany Russia france and gb all back Turkey, and form a bloc. Or you can play Hungary and never fight a real war because your horses are 5x more powerful than tanks. To be honest, so long as you keep yourself honest and don’t go for the overpowered meme builds (becuase it’d be sad for you cool annual narrative style) I think I’d like it. Everyone who plays it seems to consider themselves masters whereas in a good sense I comfier you to be quite a ‘serious’ player haha.
I was worried about that intro with the slightly too loud dramatic music and the Mr Beast style captions for every word said, but luckily the video was a nice commentary of your playthrough! Kaiserredux can be thought of as a fun-mode, historical accuracy isn’t as important since the Russian dude who took over Mongolia can larp as Genghis Khan and take over Asia, Russia can form a Euroasian superstate, and Germany gets its own alternative focus trees (only if they are in as bad a crisis to provoke that). I might be crazy but I’d swear countries get way more divisions, so maybe look into division limiters.
How did your navy die? You split it up into 3 small navies that could be destroyed one at a time. Use one massive navy for supremacy, and use a swarm of 15-20 stack submarines. Keiserredux is too silly to be fun.
no keep destroyers and carriers and cruisers in a big fleet and use corvettes, and destroyers and submarines in convoy you can also add cruisers to it as well you will shit on ai
@Colonel Cam my pro tip for the navy is to put all your non-Sub Ships in strike force in the areas you want (manually put them in near the selected area) and put all of your subs on convoy raiding in the same area. And for naval invasions, do the same thing but change your non-sub ships to invasion support
49:10 Yucatan is the place with the most Maya, actually a majority* even until today, in fact that’s why there’s some rebel movements in the south, normally not looking for independence just an end to assimilation of the maya, and a fairer economic system, maybe some decentralisation too.
25:28 - They took a ton of casualties, but they didn't come anywhere near to doing all the work. I'd like to see how they would have done without the US send them $13 billion in aid, sending the Allies around $11 billion in aid, and opening up 3 fronts in Northwest Africa, Italy, and France.
Idk how navies work because I don’t like playing the uk but what I do if I play them is consolidate all ships into 1 massive fleet and turn on the thing that allows damaged ships to detach
idk if kaiserredux is less linear but it is definitely a lot less balanced and a lot sillier for example you can play as the anarcho satanists of poland that can core literally the entire world
@@VonPlanter yea fr i love kaiserreich and some of the kaiserredux paths are cool and well writen but why the hell is there out of nowhere jesus christ in America the leader😭💀
I just had a very long (by my standards) campaign as the French commune except I decided to disallow myself from changing my conscription or economy laws meaning civilian economy and service by requirement the goal? destroy every alliance that isn't the third internationale (because full world conquest would take literally years as in irl years due to how slow the game runs for me in the late game) I did manage to take down Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the antante (in that order) but Japan just decided to stack all of their divisions in the home islands, put all of their fleets on strike force and just stand there menacingly its 1943 and I have been trying to break down japan for at least a year now overall it was surprisingly easy because in the early game there's barely any difference between that challenge run vs casual run while in the late game you should have enough allies to actually hold the line for you while you run around with tanks
32:26 “we can devolutionise our country” I mean yes, we would say “devolve our administration” as a Brit who has to deal with this clunky term for decentralisation.
In all of my hours of Kaiserreich or Kaiserredux I have never seen Austria collapsing into anarchy and being annexed by Germany, does somebody know how this happens? Because that seems like a way to get a ultra Strong Reichspakt.
Colonel Cam please if you accept any sugestion,please make a video in the same style but with the USSR in the iron courtain mod trying to win the cold war!!!!
i find kaiserredux to be better in my opinion, the same things tend to happen such as france declaring on germany but the allies tend to be far more varied than kasiereich
Kaiserredux isn't 'better' per se, it complements KR. KR is mechnically sound, but KX adds a lot of interesting wackiness, and restores a lot of older KR stuff. e.g. possiiblities of the U.S avoiding civil war, Russia joining Germany, Britain having a royalist coup, Gamelin taking over the French Commune etc. The sheer number of variables makes KX very fun in its own right, even if it is far more unbalanced than KR. There's also a lot of content for ignored KR countries, e.g. Bohemia
Gamelin can take over the French Commune in Kaiserreich too. IIRC after the Jacobines win the 1936 elections and try to purge everyone, you can have Gamelin stop the purges and topple the Totalists.
If you ever play millenium dawn will you create different rules for the different outlooks, particularly salafist outlook? Come to think of it you should create different rules for islamist nations in general (theyre not just in md, there's also some in kaiserreich/redux, cold war iron curtain, new ways etc).
when Hungary wins nothing happens I believe in my french campaign I unintentionally made Hungary win because I pulled Austria into the second Weltkrieg before the civil war fired so Hungary just walked into Vienna unopposed as the entire austrian army got stuck in alsace Lorraine that was pretty convenient for me but after that Hungary just sat there doing nothing of interest
Critically underrated hoi4 youtuber. I don’t just hope you’ll get big, I KNOW you will. Keep going bro 😁
I love the way you said "We are gonna Split germany up into smaller states", and in the end all of your territories are one state
Do you unironically not know who Alan Turing is...
Fr sad
Idk either i dont think he is important tbh
@@wolfenprime5867he was pretty much the father of modern computing...
@@someguy8375 And helped shorten the duration of the war by possibly 3 years!
@@frederickrhodes2551 but not solely him, dont forget his brilliant team alongside him
For navy you really want to research the anti fire damage shit in the naval support tree. Those critical hits are pains in the arse.
My understanding is you should consider kaiseredux as ‘chaos’ mode.
Sometimes it can be better because of all the discontinued narrative threads/focus trees interacting. Therefore you get a more different story, but at the risk of bad chaos, a lot of the modifiers are unbalanced a lot of the factions can be unbalanced, so you could win easily taking a meme path or be destroyed as greece because Germany Russia france and gb all back Turkey, and form a bloc. Or you can play Hungary and never fight a real war because your horses are 5x more powerful than tanks. To be honest, so long as you keep yourself honest and don’t go for the overpowered meme builds (becuase it’d be sad for you cool annual narrative style) I think I’d like it. Everyone who plays it seems to consider themselves masters whereas in a good sense I comfier you to be quite a ‘serious’ player haha.
Alan turing was like the best decriptor of the uk in ww2
I was worried about that intro with the slightly too loud dramatic music and the Mr Beast style captions for every word said, but luckily the video was a nice commentary of your playthrough!
Kaiserredux can be thought of as a fun-mode, historical accuracy isn’t as important since the Russian dude who took over Mongolia can larp as Genghis Khan and take over Asia, Russia can form a Euroasian superstate, and Germany gets its own alternative focus trees (only if they are in as bad a crisis to provoke that).
I might be crazy but I’d swear countries get way more divisions, so maybe look into division limiters.
How did your navy die? You split it up into 3 small navies that could be destroyed one at a time. Use one massive navy for supremacy, and use a swarm of 15-20 stack submarines.
Keiserredux is too silly to be fun.
no keep destroyers and carriers and cruisers in a big fleet and use corvettes, and destroyers and submarines in convoy you can also add cruisers to it as well you will shit on ai
@Colonel Cam my pro tip for the navy is to put all your non-Sub Ships in strike force in the areas you want (manually put them in near the selected area) and put all of your subs on convoy raiding in the same area.
And for naval invasions, do the same thing but change your non-sub ships to invasion support
Kaiserredux does give a lot of countries a lot more paths, even if a lot of them are silly or unrealistic.
I like that you fast forward the gameplay while narrating the story. A very nice touch.
GReat video. Keep it up man.
49:10 Yucatan is the place with the most Maya, actually a majority* even until today, in fact that’s why there’s some rebel movements in the south, normally not looking for independence just an end to assimilation of the maya, and a fairer economic system, maybe some decentralisation too.
In all my Kaiserredux games, everyone just gangs up on Japan.
Kaiserredux has a lot more fun paths and scenarios so I'd say it's at least worth a shot.
Mic quality was really good! Sub granted
Hey cam love your videos a little advice on tanks always have atleast 80% reliability i would never go under that ! Keep up the great work!
25:28 - They took a ton of casualties, but they didn't come anywhere near to doing all the work. I'd like to see how they would have done without the US send them $13 billion in aid, sending the Allies around $11 billion in aid, and opening up 3 fronts in Northwest Africa, Italy, and France.
Idk how navies work because I don’t like playing the uk but what I do if I play them is consolidate all ships into 1 massive fleet and turn on the thing that allows damaged ships to detach
6:01 Yes KX does make it better
I enjoy your videos
idk if kaiserredux is less linear
but it is definitely a lot less balanced and a lot sillier
for example
you can play as the anarcho satanists of poland that can core literally the entire world
The best channel of HOI4
Very interesting video! Maybe "I spent hours doing the Second American Civil War" in Kaiserreich?
Play kaiseredux if you want that
Man I think you should play kaiserredux bc you have more crazy paths, especially for Germany, Russia the KMT, France and the union of Britain
But it destroys most of the flavor cause its wacky asf
@@wolfenprime5867 ye thats kinda sad
@@VonPlanter yea fr i love kaiserreich and some of the kaiserredux paths are cool and well writen but why the hell is there out of nowhere jesus christ in America the leader😭💀
kaiserredux is in fact very different, you should try it!
lmao you stumbled upon the eternally incomplete Hungarian focus tree of Kaiserreich
Opening goes unequivocally hard
I just had a very long (by my standards) campaign as the French commune
except I decided to disallow myself from changing my conscription or economy laws meaning civilian economy and service by requirement
the goal? destroy every alliance that isn't the third internationale (because full world conquest would take literally years as in irl years due to how slow the game runs for me in the late game)
I did manage to take down Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the antante (in that order) but Japan just decided to stack all of their divisions in the home islands, put all of their fleets on strike force and just stand there
menacingly
its 1943 and I have been trying to break down japan for at least a year now
overall it was surprisingly easy because in the early game there's barely any difference between that challenge run vs casual run while in the late game you should have enough allies to actually hold the line for you while you run around with tanks
Your army being in zero supply is so painful to watch mate
32:26 “we can devolutionise our country” I mean yes, we would say “devolve our administration” as a Brit who has to deal with this clunky term for decentralisation.
ah yes please tell me more about alan turning
In all of my hours of Kaiserreich or Kaiserredux I have never seen Austria collapsing into anarchy and being annexed by Germany, does somebody know how this happens? Because that seems like a way to get a ultra Strong Reichspakt.
I think that they must do "end dual rule" focus, and start losing war against the czechs. Happens to me every game.
Bro I totally recommend you playing Kaiserredux, it has more content and the wars are more varied.
And its laggy and shitty balanced as hell
Could you do transamur in kaiserreich? Played it recently and by the 1953 I controlled all russian and european states. Was heaps of fun.
Also, do you stream on twitch?
As a hoi player with 2500 hours. You made a mistake... Trying to learn navy
I have scoliosis
Colonel Cam please if you accept any sugestion,please make a video in the same style but with the USSR in the iron courtain mod trying to win the cold war!!!!
i find kaiserredux to be better in my opinion, the same things tend to happen such as france declaring on germany but the allies tend to be far more varied than kasiereich
+ some more lags
+ Jesus is fuckin you from amerika (tf?)
You pronounce "no" as "naur" and it never is not funny. Great videos mate.
Kaiserredux is more fun if you want more random stuff, kaiserreich is more scripted
nice can you do kaiserreich latvia forms the ussr would be cool
I beg of you please consider upgrading railways and not infrastracture for supply, and also please take navies in the peace deal
Just subbed your content is fucking peak
Kaiserredux isn't 'better' per se, it complements KR. KR is mechnically sound, but KX adds a lot of interesting wackiness, and restores a lot of older KR stuff. e.g. possiiblities of the U.S avoiding civil war, Russia joining Germany, Britain having a royalist coup, Gamelin taking over the French Commune etc. The sheer number of variables makes KX very fun in its own right, even if it is far more unbalanced than KR. There's also a lot of content for ignored KR countries, e.g. Bohemia
Gamelin can take over the French Commune in Kaiserreich too. IIRC after the Jacobines win the 1936 elections and try to purge everyone, you can have Gamelin stop the purges and topple the Totalists.
If you ever play millenium dawn will you create different rules for the different outlooks, particularly salafist outlook?
Come to think of it you should create different rules for islamist nations in general (theyre not just in md, there's also some in kaiserreich/redux, cold war iron curtain, new ways etc).
Screw you for giving corsica to France.
Fr it’s Italian
Kaiserredux is very good
Nahhhhhh ain no way
You could've gone Mosley to Orwell path.
when Hungary wins
nothing happens I believe
in my french campaign I unintentionally made Hungary win because I pulled Austria into the second Weltkrieg before the civil war fired so Hungary just walked into Vienna unopposed as the entire austrian army got stuck in alsace Lorraine
that was pretty convenient for me but after that Hungary just sat there doing nothing of interest
Naaaaaw naaaaaaaw 😂
LFG
kaiserredux is WAY better,even bhutan has a focus tree
@@rane69420 i didn't know,but KX has a focus for almost every nation
you mean, why communism, that completely disaster for good taste in this game