Just call the series "A Retrospective of the rarely used Gameplay Mechanics of Alternative Focus Trees within the Video Game Referred to as "Hearts of Iron 4", released by the Swedish video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive, based out of Stockholm." Really rolls off the tongue.
5:15 The hilarious thing is that they had to go back and add that in after No Step Back which added railroads. They changed whatever it was originally (probably infrastructure?) To be something more worthless.
To be fair, the original description was railroads, which infrastructure represented, so while it is a downgrade Railways are the intended thing you get, although it's kinda meh since the time of the focus wasn't changed to reflect that
Ironically, I think one of the only Australia games I played was communist Australia. I ended up helping out Communist China which ultimately ended with the CCP and Kuomintang swapping their real-life positions and an irradiated Chinese mainland in an attempt to lower war support.
4:36 That really makes no sense, considering that the Royal Australian Air Force was founded all the way back in 1921. They did have planes, too, just no homemade ones until 1936.
I have a dirty confession, communist australia is probably my most played path in vanilla hoi4, spam agency, get collab on Dutch East Indies, invade the Netherlands from the soviets, collab siam big SEA empire before japan good times The focus tree makes me want to toaster bath
As an Aussie, why the hell isn't all of the steel in the south, Whyalla is the biggest exporter of steel in the country and was second biggest in the world at one point.
I think I may be the only other person who actually actively played Australia and it was just as you expected.... On a side note, it always confused me how Australia starts off with so little resources when the country itself is literally overflowing with iron, tungsten etc it's a biut like the the middleeast having so little oil... I feel they need to focus on bringing the world up to date etc with resource balance and that. Would go a long way if Paradox actually focused on stuff already in the game instead of just adding random country focus trees.
As an Australian, I have also never played Australia. OK maybe once, but yeah. The tree is garbage, and the fact that it's not even that historically accurate is pretty annoying. John Curtin wasn't our PM until 1941, and he died 4 years later. The sad thing is, I actually think there's a *lot* of decent potential for Australia. You could have the Dalfram dispute, where Menzies came into conflict with trade unionists who refused to load pig iron bound for Japan during its war with China. You could have it escalate into a conflict between the UAP/Country Party Coalition where you could stay democratic or slowly increase support for Japan until you become fascist and the trade unions where you could get the Labor Party early or keep going until you become communist. *Anything* better than "Oh you can fight Japan and ask for New Zealand" five different times.
@@Coolinjay04 Not really wishing to enter your little discussion with @GGNatalie but you might want to do a bit of research. Australia actually supplied most of the generic materials for the US forces in the Pacific throughout the war. The contribution was so important the US encouraged Australia to demob some divisions (CMF) to return to industry and, critically, Australia was if not the only, then one of the only countries, with a positive balance of payments with Lend Lease. That is, the US owed Australia at the end of the war, not the other way around. None of this amounts to 'the most important' but it certainly isn't trivial either.
@@montecarlo1651 I don't want this to turn into a debate. Yes they were "important" as was the 15+ countries in the allies. Wikipedia states simpily, "While the military was largely relegated to subsidiary fronts from mid-1944, it continued offensive operations against the Japanese until the war ended." In the actual gritty fight for the most part the Australians were what we would call reserves today. Only 27,073 confirmed kills for the war. That's what the Americans fought on a single island.
@@Coolinjay04 Fair enough. You are considering contribution mainly by casualties and this isn't a good measure. If it was, then China or the USSR would be by far the most significant contributors, and I don't think you'd readily agree with that. Australians played critical roles in Nth Africa and responsible for taking 10s of thousands of POWs in addition to inflicting considerable losses on the Axis. It was Australians that defended Tobruk, and held it against repeated attacks from Rommel (he called the Australian's the elite troops of the Empire), and Australians made the key breakthrough at 2nd El Alamein when their attack was meant to be a diversion. These troops, called the 2nd AIF and comprising 6 divisions, were raised from volunteers and were Australia's regular army, they were not militia or reservists. That they were all volunteers makes them unique among all combatant forces and partly explains their esprit de corps. The CMF, a sort of reservists force, was initially deployed in the islands north of Australia when Japan entered the war as the AIF was still in Nth Africa however once the AIF came back, they took over the campaign. Being hardened veterans, these were very serious soldiers indeed. Australia was consigned by MacArthur to ancillary theatres for political reasons, as he wanted to achieve results with American troops to aggrandize his reputation in the US. This was a bit like how he was consigned to the same theatres by the US military to deny him any great achievements. That tends to understate the Australian contribution to the War, if not the Pacific theatre. Australians were the first to defeat the Japanese Army, at Milne Bay in PNG and followed this up with steady success in appalling conditions throughout PNG and into the Indonesian archipelago. Most of this history is forgotten, including by most Australians. Of course, how can this compete with Nimitiz's naval campaign? It can't, for more than any other single contribution, it was this contribution by the US navy that dominates the Pacific theatre. All of the other theatres, with the exception of China, are clearly much lower down the list. I am certainly not arguing for any greater role than the country deserves, but its contribution wasn't nothing and deserves to be remembered.
Fun fact in ww2, the Japanese in Papua New Guinea had so little food thay acutely had to eat each other in order for them to survive so that sentence you said at 14:26 is actually true
One thing Australia can do that Canada can't is if they go alt-democratic, they can leave the Allies during the war and start their faction with the USA. Allows you to bring in a big gun earlier into the war.
You actually got decent territory as Australia, I'm impressed. After my super invulnerable to AI battlecruiser strategy stopped being effective I never bothered trying them. Still, having to steal a navy...
I member my Great War Redux game where I decided to play as Australia and Gallipoli was New Guinea because the German AI decided to throw 500K manpower into defending it.
Fun fact: with enough war participation you can get the achievement "Australia-Hungary" by going communist and helping the Soviets in the war. It's a bit hard, but probably the only choice on Historical since joining the Axis from Asia and paradropping from Austria doesn't work anymore.
I haven't played Australia yet, but the day may come one day since I often use a wheel of fortune to choose the country and ideology I'm gonna play next. With historical focuses off, of course. If I'm already going insane, I shall fully commit to it.
Ironically the best way to play ahistorical australia is the same as historical australia, rushing tanks and begging your allies for lendlease for everything else I mean I guess that goes for any minor nation that cant get lots of extra cores tbh
The Australian “Focus Tree” is one of the reasons I hate Paradox Interactive *so* much as a company. They’re incredibly lazy. It genuinely blows my mind how much people will defend them when the modding community have proven - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that the developers *could* do more, but simply choose not to.
I'm one of Paradox's biggest haters, but this is just silly, this tree was released in like 2017. Say what you will but their focus trees have gotten much better.
@@kamemesg2083I do think he main issue is the lack of updates to older focus trees though, but yes, they've gotten a bit better (Though still not fully in depth, but eh)
Man, a lot of these countries need a major update for focus tree. But I'm pretty sure paradox will eventually release them in a BRAND new Dlc pack for 15$, right guys???
australian ship production can get pretty mental early on if you go hard into the tech and focuses. T3 ships in 1936/37 is spicy, just have to rely on a competent allies... :|
i mostly play with mods but after the new patch ive noticed an insane amount of naval invasions by not even just england. again not sure if thats new or what cuz of the usual mod situation
Obviously it isn't fun! Paradox will make new focus tree dlc for all the first countries who got dlc! (they gave 3 old dlc for free, so they can remake them like the last ones, enormous focus tree... As overpriced focus tree dlc😂) (since there isn't much they can add from hoi3 features (but surely like for Prison Architect, lot of mods content to steal (make an overpriced dlc from a free mod) and make into their game, like division designer - in division template designer, choosing what 1 infantry division accounts for, like giving mortar, sniper, antitank sniper etc, to get a chance to make everything in your country as you like, which allows more replayability, as you might change those every new campaign you play), if they want their AI to not crumble 1 year into a game, due to features it wants to use but don't know how😅)
> "Relieved the Siege of Leningrad!"
> Shows Stalingrad
This game has really taken its toll on your brainfunction.
hey
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It's the truth.
@@SPCv4 hey
@hans triggered german
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“Almost in Working Order” seems like a good series title tbh
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That one's perfect
Nah, "The Bizarre and Delusional" would make more sense
Just call the series "A Retrospective of the rarely used Gameplay Mechanics of Alternative Focus Trees within the Video Game Referred to as "Hearts of Iron 4", released by the Swedish video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive, based out of Stockholm."
Really rolls off the tongue.
AROTRUGMOAFT. for short
Shortest title for a parliament bill:
or AROTHRUGMOAFTWTVGRTAHOI4RBTSVGDAPPIBOOS for short
I'm thinking just... cleaver
I have something else which can roll off your tongue
5:15 The hilarious thing is that they had to go back and add that in after No Step Back which added railroads. They changed whatever it was originally (probably infrastructure?) To be something more worthless.
At least infrastructure is a bit more useful than just 2 railways
To be fair, the original description was railroads, which infrastructure represented, so while it is a downgrade
Railways are the intended thing you get, although it's kinda meh since the time of the focus wasn't changed to reflect that
ISP thinks we forgot about Achievment hunting
Amidst all the division and animosity, all Australians, capitalist or communist, can agree that they really wanna kick Japan’s ass.
Yeah, some things wouldn’t change, no matter the reality.
yes, we would like to just with a better focus tree.
Nobody has ever played Australia? I can believe that.
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Ironically, I think one of the only Australia games I played was communist Australia. I ended up helping out Communist China which ultimately ended with the CCP and Kuomintang swapping their real-life positions and an irradiated Chinese mainland in an attempt to lower war support.
Australia's like the only country I play lol
@@brijekavervix7340Really? Didn't you try nations like Italy, Soviet Union, UK or US?
@@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 like once or twice compared to dozens for Australia
9:56 Brazil invading Italy is actually historically accurate, Brazilian troops fought almost entirely in the Italian campaign irl.
Just came to mention this
No kidding. I genuinely had no idea that was the case. Very interesting, thanks!
Glory to the People’s republic of Up-Above
RALLY BEHIND THE RAT
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Call it ‘Hoi4 A2Z: the focuses strike back’
Or same but with A2Z2
Focus tree Frenzy
Whoa there buddy, New Zealand actually has a formable, and the mighty Bob Semple.
Didn't they take the bob semple out?
It's an idea @@mandowarrior123
Bob Semple-only run when?
@@mandowarrior123I think you can still get it by turning some DLC off
Forgotten Focuses could be a decent name for the series
Australia tree is just "the illusion of choice, you will fight Japan"
4:36 That really makes no sense, considering that the Royal Australian Air Force was founded all the way back in 1921. They did have planes, too, just no homemade ones until 1936.
9:55 *Cobras Fumantes, eterna é sua vitória!*
I have a dirty confession, communist australia is probably my most played path in vanilla hoi4, spam agency, get collab on Dutch East Indies, invade the Netherlands from the soviets, collab siam big SEA empire before japan good times
The focus tree makes me want to toaster bath
you have a mouse
i have a cat
all in all
WE WANT THE RAT
Oil Up, Bring Back The Rat, Alf Landon, Anti-Tank Only, only then we will have peace
Sevond video of the series and you CHEATED
You’ve watched a 17 minute video which came out 2 mins ago 🥶
How Do you know allreally?
@I_lovesushi738 probably was unlisted and he got the link early since he's a member
@@I_lovesushi738 He watched it on 10x speed obviously
Woulda thought this is the most obvious answer right?@@delrunplays2903
As an Aussie, why the hell isn't all of the steel in the south, Whyalla is the biggest exporter of steel in the country and was second biggest in the world at one point.
I think I may be the only other person who actually actively played Australia and it was just as you expected....
On a side note, it always confused me how Australia starts off with so little resources when the country itself is literally overflowing with iron, tungsten etc it's a biut like the the middleeast having so little oil... I feel they need to focus on bringing the world up to date etc with resource balance and that. Would go a long way if Paradox actually focused on stuff already in the game instead of just adding random country focus trees.
alot of those resources were discovered after ww2 otherwise japan may of actually put a invasion of australia into serious consideration.
@@tf-uderpy699 *may HAVE
As an Australian, I have also never played Australia. OK maybe once, but yeah. The tree is garbage, and the fact that it's not even that historically accurate is pretty annoying. John Curtin wasn't our PM until 1941, and he died 4 years later. The sad thing is, I actually think there's a *lot* of decent potential for Australia. You could have the Dalfram dispute, where Menzies came into conflict with trade unionists who refused to load pig iron bound for Japan during its war with China. You could have it escalate into a conflict between the UAP/Country Party Coalition where you could stay democratic or slowly increase support for Japan until you become fascist and the trade unions where you could get the Labor Party early or keep going until you become communist. *Anything* better than "Oh you can fight Japan and ask for New Zealand" five different times.
They really need to make a free update for old focus trees. They won't, but they should.
Oh no, now that they were rolled into the base game you’ll get to pay for a country pack or expansion overhauling them!
Okay, but when are you going to do the support equipment only challenge?
Focus-pocus.
australia games create some of the most chaotic scenarios ive ever seen on historical
Australia was actually so important for the pacificic theatre in WWII I think its funny, that people often overlook that.
Well I’m sure in the list of important things in the pacific theater the Australians we’re definitely not at the top
@@Coolinjay04 Not really wishing to enter your little discussion with @GGNatalie but you might want to do a bit of research. Australia actually supplied most of the generic materials for the US forces in the Pacific throughout the war. The contribution was so important the US encouraged Australia to demob some divisions (CMF) to return to industry and, critically, Australia was if not the only, then one of the only countries, with a positive balance of payments with Lend Lease. That is, the US owed Australia at the end of the war, not the other way around. None of this amounts to 'the most important' but it certainly isn't trivial either.
@@montecarlo1651 I don't want this to turn into a debate. Yes they were "important" as was the 15+ countries in the allies. Wikipedia states simpily, "While the military was largely relegated to subsidiary fronts from mid-1944, it continued offensive operations against the Japanese until the war ended." In the actual gritty fight for the most part the Australians were what we would call reserves today. Only 27,073 confirmed kills for the war. That's what the Americans fought on a single island.
@@Coolinjay04 Fair enough. You are considering contribution mainly by casualties and this isn't a good measure. If it was, then China or the USSR would be by far the most significant contributors, and I don't think you'd readily agree with that. Australians played critical roles in Nth Africa and responsible for taking 10s of thousands of POWs in addition to inflicting considerable losses on the Axis. It was Australians that defended Tobruk, and held it against repeated attacks from Rommel (he called the Australian's the elite troops of the Empire), and Australians made the key breakthrough at 2nd El Alamein when their attack was meant to be a diversion. These troops, called the 2nd AIF and comprising 6 divisions, were raised from volunteers and were Australia's regular army, they were not militia or reservists. That they were all volunteers makes them unique among all combatant forces and partly explains their esprit de corps.
The CMF, a sort of reservists force, was initially deployed in the islands north of Australia when Japan entered the war as the AIF was still in Nth Africa however once the AIF came back, they took over the campaign. Being hardened veterans, these were very serious soldiers indeed.
Australia was consigned by MacArthur to ancillary theatres for political reasons, as he wanted to achieve results with American troops to aggrandize his reputation in the US. This was a bit like how he was consigned to the same theatres by the US military to deny him any great achievements. That tends to understate the Australian contribution to the War, if not the Pacific theatre. Australians were the first to defeat the Japanese Army, at Milne Bay in PNG and followed this up with steady success in appalling conditions throughout PNG and into the Indonesian archipelago. Most of this history is forgotten, including by most Australians. Of course, how can this compete with Nimitiz's naval campaign? It can't, for more than any other single contribution, it was this contribution by the US navy that dominates the Pacific theatre. All of the other theatres, with the exception of China, are clearly much lower down the list. I am certainly not arguing for any greater role than the country deserves, but its contribution wasn't nothing and deserves to be remembered.
@@montecarlo1651 lol
Fun fact in ww2, the Japanese in Papua New Guinea had so little food thay acutely had to eat each other in order for them to survive so that sentence you said at 14:26 is actually true
One thing Australia can do that Canada can't is if they go alt-democratic, they can leave the Allies during the war and start their faction with the USA. Allows you to bring in a big gun earlier into the war.
In Communist Australia, spider eats you!
Wait no that's just regular Australia
Petition for ISP to play Syndicalist Italy/Roman Empire in Kaiserredux Day 39
I m so sad thta Isp didnt notice 16:05 the great afghani push into India
11:08 the offensive looked like the kangaroo on the flag!
We are Timmy, Cousin of Swimmy
Are we twigmma males then?
@@viva5208 we are the RAT
Time traveller: steps on butterfly
President Richard Nixon: 5:51
“Paradox Moment” A to Z
As an Australian, I can confirm that we do not exist
My cat died last night Ive also had rough day and when I saw this video came out it madey day thank you sorrow and don't ever stop
@6:00 his name is Dick Dixon? What a fucking legend. Double Dick Australia
Call the series "focusing on torturing myself"
SERIES NAME: Hocus Focus
Or Focus Pocus if you prefer
Objection i play australia but only so i can annoy my japanese main friend
"Never Another Gallipoli"
Alternate focus name: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
finally another trip down under for isp
You actually got decent territory as Australia, I'm impressed. After my super invulnerable to AI battlecruiser strategy stopped being effective I never bothered trying them. Still, having to steal a navy...
the Alf Landon Memorial A-Z Hoi4 Lets Play.
Glad to see another episode of "Loosing my god damn mind playing every nation in Hoi IV for the third time to Z"
Focus hocus pocus, this is A to Z now
I member my Great War Redux game where I decided to play as Australia and Gallipoli was New Guinea because the German AI decided to throw 500K manpower into defending it.
Fun fact: with enough war participation you can get the achievement "Australia-Hungary" by going communist and helping the Soviets in the war. It's a bit hard, but probably the only choice on Historical since joining the Axis from Asia and paradropping from Austria doesn't work anymore.
Being australian can suck sometime. Thankyou for bringing attention to the colloquial distant drunk uncle of the planet.
I haven't played Australia yet, but the day may come one day since I often use a wheel of fortune to choose the country and ideology I'm gonna play next. With historical focuses off, of course. If I'm already going insane, I shall fully commit to it.
Ironically the best way to play ahistorical australia is the same as historical australia, rushing tanks and begging your allies for lendlease for everything else
I mean I guess that goes for any minor nation that cant get lots of extra cores tbh
The Australian “Focus Tree” is one of the reasons I hate Paradox Interactive *so* much as a company. They’re incredibly lazy. It genuinely blows my mind how much people will defend them when the modding community have proven - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that the developers *could* do more, but simply choose not to.
Bro that was one of the first DLC’s in the game, they are currently doing more with the new focus trees
I'm one of Paradox's biggest haters, but this is just silly, this tree was released in like 2017. Say what you will but their focus trees have gotten much better.
@@kamemesg2083I do think he main issue is the lack of updates to older focus trees though, but yes, they've gotten a bit better
(Though still not fully in depth, but eh)
@@glauberglousger956 Agreed on the last part, focus trees in mods are much better.
ah, my homeland, where the prime minister just disappears one day whilst going out on a swim
Could call it the "Focus Trees you don't See" or just "Weird focus for me"
I think this is the first time I ever see Richard Dixon in this game.
Australian Mountaniers be fighting months in steppes and cities just to finaly fight 20 German Divisions low on everything in the caucuses
Man, a lot of these countries need a major update for focus tree. But I'm pretty sure paradox will eventually release them in a BRAND new Dlc pack for 15$, right guys???
As an Australian, what the hell is a plane???
Congratulations, Richard Dixon... or should I say... RICHARD NIXON 5:51
australian ship production can get pretty mental early on if you go hard into the tech and focuses. T3 ships in 1936/37 is spicy, just have to rely on a competent allies... :|
15:46 pomerania is argentinean 🧉🗿🇦🇷🦅🔥🤑
iSorrow, anyone can miss Australia, all tucked away up there.
Not as much as they can miss... oh, what was it called? It's near Australia but it's never on any maps. Oh well.
Unironically you've been getting better deals than we got irl.
The malaya focus in the facist path has always gone well for me, but never in a single game have i gotten new zealand
I'll be having your gravy, sir
Ah yes, a German SS-Obergruppenführer leading a Danish revolt against Hitlerite overlordship, thanks Paradox!
Richard Dixon? Honestly sounds like althistory book's fictional Richard Nixon analog.
The best I could think of is "A to Focus Tree" or "A to Focus Z"
This is giving me an italian-portuguese focus tree feel
You should try playing HOI the way I always do: open the console and type research all, fa, and pp 2000
Oh Jolly, another Isorrowproductions video what a horrible day
Hoi4: Unexplored and Forgotten Focuses
Title idea posting number two: Hearts of Iron 4: Fully Focused
Focus of Iron
I was a Gravy Baby. But i got eaten by a dingo.
I’m still all for the name someone suggested on the last video “HOI4 Alf to Zinoviyev”
I can't believe we just watched someone play Australia for the first time
i mostly play with mods but after the new patch ive noticed an insane amount of naval invasions by not even just england. again not sure if thats new or what cuz of the usual mod situation
"HOI4: Focused Fanaticism" A -Z
It may not have been fun to play, but it sure is fun to watch!
New Zealand and Australia desperately need new trees.
I see we simply have just brought back A2Z with a different name
Obviously it isn't fun!
Paradox will make new focus tree dlc for all the first countries who got dlc! (they gave 3 old dlc for free, so they can remake them like the last ones, enormous focus tree... As overpriced focus tree dlc😂)
(since there isn't much they can add from hoi3 features (but surely like for Prison Architect, lot of mods content to steal (make an overpriced dlc from a free mod) and make into their game, like division designer - in division template designer, choosing what 1 infantry division accounts for, like giving mortar, sniper, antitank sniper etc, to get a chance to make everything in your country as you like,
which allows more replayability, as you might change those every new campaign you play),
if they want their AI to not crumble 1 year into a game, due to features it wants to use but don't know how😅)
This series should be called focus of treeeeezzzzsss
Can he just say gravy babies one more time 😭
“Paths of pain”, sounds like ho4 esc title
Just got hoi4 cause of the sale so ima watch your vids more now lol
Call it the ABC’s of the Focus Trees
Pointless Paths A to Z Episode 2 is here. Woo!
Under used focus tree, A-Z! It rhymes!
Bruh everybody underestimates Australia, including Paradox Interactive...
Of course no one has played Australia... it didn't have the all mighty bob semple
I think you should call it hoi4: 2a2z
Jeez just call it "Focus Tree to Z" and be done with it
Focus Forest could be a good title for the series
Lore of Nobody Has Ever Played This Country In Hearts Of Iron IV momentum 100
There needs to be an update to these older dlc's