And the Boston accent was actually really good rather than mutilated! Lotta good voice lines all over, I hope this company keeps churning out games with a clearly talented writing/acting staff.
"We should intervene, Mr. President." "No. Building empires is wrong." "They stole our factories though!" "The Declaration of Independence names this maneuver 'Special Interests.'"
One of the most important roles that the Founding Fathers laid out for the federal government to fulfill was protecting the private property of American citizens, when foreign powers start expropriating American property our government is obligated to act on our behalf in defense of our property rights. I'm not saying I approve of American imperialism and our wars for strategic control of middle eastern oil and all that, but if Rusviet was stealing *my* shit up in Alaska I'd expect the government to do something about it.
In the Adeptus Mechanicus archives of ancient Terra, the inspiration for Assault Marine armor patterns and combat doctrine came from the once named, "Usonians".
@@digitbit3180 There is no material claiming Emps is american in any way, native or otherwise. His origins claim hes from Anatolia, so hes Turkish. But also, it literally doesnt matter, his actual ethnic group likely died out or was assimilated in the 40000+ years between his birth and his rulership of mankind.
Imagine being a Prussian conscript stationed in Arabia and seeing a walking tank covered in American flags crest a hill followed by 100 camels with gatling guns strapped to their humps.
@@kornaktanker7633 I doubt it, Teddy was not against interventionism in the slightest, at least, when it was in our own sphere of influence. He wanted Europe out of the Americas and was not afraid to go to war if need be. An example of that would be his reaction to the Venezuela crisis in 1903 with the Roosevelt corollary.
@@Ajvt-ux4ec causs thats kinda the thing with this game isnt it? its a exagerated alt history of real life i mean some of the polish and russian voice actors were also SUPER hammy at times but its all fun and well written kind of ham for a outthere yet familer game like this
@@wilmagregg3131 They were an army unit based at Mariposa who mutined after seeing the FEV-related bullshit that was going on. Said mutiny would have been put down _hard,_ except for the fact that it happened on 20 October 2077
@@Smeghead76 yeah i know i just couldnt remeber what branch of miltary maxon and his unit was so i assumed it was marines consiering they were given power armour and told to guard mariaposa which i assumed would be a spec ops job
i really think the developers did a great job of capturing the traditional American philosophy of just strapping a bunch of machineguns to shit and calling it a day.
Captain Mason: single handedly wins battles with little support from the rest of the armed forces and goes above and beyond the aims of the mission Admiral Mason: "and i took that personally"
its honestly so great its approach is simple yet very well done take the 1920s alter and exagetate while smoothing down some harsher bits of history while adding tons of steampunk tech and mechs. apparently there is also a united aztlan country a guess a aztec empire that never was conquered replacing mexico and some unknown equivalent of canada that actually sided with there version of the Usa instead of the britsh equivalent from the very begining adding them in wars suggesting a even close relationship then RL usa and canada
@@wilmagregg3131 plus I’m pretty sure Britain doesn’t exist in this, the Scot’s won in this universe. I believe it’s clan Albion (can’t exactly remember their name) that rules the Great Britain.
I like how every mech is literally the principle of "overkill is not optional it's mandatory" or my personal favorite "there is no such thing as too much dakka"
Well, when you have giant robots walking around WW1, I think your allowed to make changes like that. Plus I don't think we've seen a Britian counterpart. So far all we know there isn't one
America, a bunch of farmers, won its war of independence against the strongest military in the world. Then it becomes the strongest military in the world and loses to a bunch of farmers
Can you imagine if Arabia actually had oil AND ninja waifus? America's pull out game in the Middle East is already spotty enough because of oil, we'd freakin annex the region in this alt universe.
@@Predator20357 in another series it would be tasteless but in iron harvest every nation is a extreme version of the ideas of modern nations from SUPER tsar and soviet rusviet russia to the not seen in game imperial japan eqivalent with full on shogun mechs etc etc
@@wilmagregg3131 If they didn’t have all the other countries be Extreme Versions of themselves, it would totally be tasteless however, it still wouldn’t be that bad as we are dealing with a game where a Polish Mech Scopes a Bear and the child of that Bear comes in morning the lost of its mother.
>Call to arms Still salty about buying that piece of shit while it was in early access. How far the developers of MoW: AS2 have fallen... And let's not forget how bad Men of War: Cold War was...
@@Voron_Aggrav the joke goes that if there is open deck space you should add more guns, if you can't, put a guy with a bazooka or some other weapon there and have him stand there.
When you want to comment about the American Intervention in the Middle East but you set your setting in 1920s: When you realize you have Alternate History: Free Real Estate
I'm sure everyone and their mother has done this premise before. But at least this game doesn't take itself seriously on that regard because everyone in the lore is a hyped up version of real empires/countries in the 20s.
@@altechelghanforever9906 Sounds about mostly right though if we went with hyped up version of 1920s America, the main campaign would be just about political games about how the world is not our fucking problem and how every mech would have 10 MGs covering all sides, oh and Al Capone being in a super mech and is the main villain. Though like you said, the game does not take itself seriously, like there's no way you can make Polish diesel punk mechs scoping bears and using bayonets seriously without a lack of self-awareness which this game has.
@@Mikey-xz4vn Not exactly, for the meeting was very much peaceful and the deal was made to get the British away from the Oil Reserves since the King wanted to be in America’s influence instead, with the oil for defense most likely being after the meeting. It may be the reason why the US ensures Saudi Arabia’s security but it’s definitely not what the Devs have been inspired by, if they did then they took quite a few liberties of such an event and instead decided to take most of it from the 1990s US Intervention and perhaps the puppet leaders as well.
Okay so that Camera bot really reminded me of something, I don't know if anyone else has but a few years ago I read a books series called "Leviathan" where it's an alterante ww1 with the central powers having mechs and the allies having biotech, and I can't help but think how awesome that setting would be. God I wish I could mod cause I would try and do that in this game.
@@cibo889 It means you do something you may not be allowed to, and then ask for forgiveness later, rather than try to get permission for it beforehand and likely being denied.
@@cibo889 The forgiveness is for doing something without asking for permission first. Keep in mind this phrase isn't entirely literal, it's not saying they're going to explicitly ask for forgiveness once everything is over. The phrase just means sometimes it's better to do what you need to without asking for approval, first, and then deal with the consequences of that once you're done. In the case of this cutscene, the idea is they'd never get permission to deploy in the middle east if they asked for it, so they'll do it secretly, and, assuming their mission is successful, the result will be so good that their superiors won't be too mad about it.
@@tripodranger7873 Sounds exactly what Washington DC did when they found out Andrew Jackson overdid his orders concerning Florida (ie he invaded and annexed it instead of stopping by the border)...
OH HELL YEAH! RIMMY IS BACK ON IRON HARVEST AND ITS THE NEW CAMPAIGN! i actually specificely watched NOTHING about this until rimmy uploaded! always a good laugh with the aussies downunder!
Usonia is a different USA. Very similar timelines though, as Usonia did expand westward, and still went to war with Spain. Key differences though is that Usonia maintained a heavier degree of isolationism than its real world counterpart. It didn't buy Alaska from Russia, and didn't intervene in the first world war. And if Iron Harvest's description is to be taken at face value, it is also exceedingly more tolerant, as Usonia will treat all citizens as first class citizens no matter who they are. Even allowing them to keep their culture, religion, and other ties from their homeland as long as they swear loyalty first and foremost to Usonia.
@@Mr.Byrnes In our current day and age yes, but I am not referring to our laws and regulations in the modern day. I am referring to the eras which the game takes place in specifically for the alternate USA, known as Usonia. For in our history during the eras after world war one. The USA had tried at multiple points in its history forcefully convert the Native populations to its culture. As well as treated various other races and what have you as second class citizens. Hell, one of the main factors why we gave up our possession over the Philippines was because our senators both Dem and Rep. Pushed for laws to ban or at least limit Filipino immigrants, (don't ask me why they couldn't do this while in possession of the Philippines I do not want to get the book out.). So, unlike the USA in our timeline, according to the games wiki. The alternate history USA, known as Usonia was more tolerant, and instead allowed first class citizenship to all civilians within the nation. As long as they swore loyalty to Usonia first and foremost of course.
The politics is heavy handed, but I feel like we've been getting subtle commentary in games for years now and it's all gone over people's heads so I'm actually liking this new heavy handed approach in gaming. Same thing happening on the latest Destiny season.
Closest thing I know to tell Rimmy for an RPG set in Iron Harvest would be home brewing the setting with Mekton Zetta. Its an old system, and therefore pretty expensive to get the books, but the PDFs are usually cheap. Also rather simple dice mechanics wise, everything being a D10 + Skill level + relevant Stat level vs a DC, no obtuse modifiers on the players end. As far as video game RPGs go... I got nothing. Maybe something similar to Front Mission?
So after I watched this I went and rewatch Ed the entire iron harvest play list then watched this again!!! So ready for part 2 keep up the awsome work rimmy and PATRON SAINT OF THE GUARD SIMPKIN!!! the emporer protects
@@muhammadsakkaakdamana1450 America is literally a crack addict that has enough ordinance to blow the Earth off its axis. Just don't ask questions or look him in the eye and he'll hopefully leave without doing at least one bombing run.
@@NetAnon It’s true! Every country must do something that’s wrong and America chooses Foreign intervention for money as people would care more if they invaded Canada
As an Alaskan, I almost went rabid at the words "Alaska under Russviet control." because that implies that the US in this alternative history is retarded. Alaska cost 2 cents an acre, for a total cost of 7.2 million dollars. Seward's "Ice chest" happens to be full of gold!
To be fair, the heavy isolationism wasn’t great for the country. We were going to have to interact with the rest of the world at some point so it was better that we steered things in the direction most beneficial to us.
I like iron harvest It talks about stuff from that time period alot with some new stuff as well If you dont know, in the 1900s to the 40s the us was very anti interventionist and didnt want to actually go to war and intervene in conflicts prefering to be left alone. That stance changed after ww2 where the red scare and Korea happened with the us becoming it's overbearing interventionalist self
The hover bikes are interesting, it's funny because the US military experimented with combar hover platforms back in the 50's, but you had to stand on them and the military has swung back around to the idea, but the new ones you sit on. The Hiller 'Pawnee' basically has a guy standing over a large propeller. And the Williams X-jet was nicknamed the flying pulpit, and it looks like something you would see a battle sister or priest use in 40k (minus the guns). The sitdown bike idea has been considered in newer designs.
Hey Rimmy/comment section, don't know if your a reader but "Leviathan" by Westerfeld might be a great book if you like ww1 mechs. Basically, the axis have walking mechanical battleships and stuff while the allies have animalesque "animals". Russians, for example, have giant bears with forts on their backs. Can't remember the age range of the books but I remember it was badass. Enjoyed the video! 👍
Ground smells of Oil, Sky screams Freedom. Also, is anyone else kind of upset at the failed opportunity (at least what I see as a failed opportunity) to have Mason Sr. be a Red Herring and have either the Uncle or the New Reporter be the main villain? Still like the story, just felt that this would've been a good opportunity to subvert expectations well.
That first scene with the zeppelins had kinda the same vibe as the BoS entering the Commonwealth in Fallout 4, after you've killed Kellogg. It was amazing.
those camels with machine guns were an actual thing. The Persians called them Zamburaks, which typically featured gatling guns or swivel guns, and holy fuck I'm so happy they added them to the game.
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"Mr.president we must act against tyranny."
"No general, we must act by example"
"But were losing money"
"Cowabunga it is General"
*"Mr. President! All I need is 34 nukes to secure Arabia"*
"But sir, they put their dirty boots all over my crisp, white sheets."
I want to say that’s an inaccurate representation of the US. anyway,
It wasn’t just losing money tbf
@@Glowingfed but rly tho?
Orders: Deal with it discretely.
What actually happens: Go in guns blazing with airships and mechs all over the place. Very subtle and American.
Very accurate lol
Its discreet if there's no witnesses to talk about it.
@@mercerholt8299 ah, the metal gear approach
@@danjordan4681 If it ain't broke don't fix it.
No one will notice if there is no one to notice
"Each faction have their animals... Bear for Polania, wolfs for Saxony..."
... And a Gun for Americans
Americans has vulture. Isn't admiral Mason convincing one? ;]
EAGLE!
And starvation for the rusviets
No the Americans have randolf
Considering how many mgs America slapped on the early tanks it's not wrong.
My favorite thing about the Usonian voices are that they used accents from all over the country instead of using some flat stereotypical accent.
👍🏻👍🏻
And the Boston accent was actually really good rather than mutilated! Lotta good voice lines all over, I hope this company keeps churning out games with a clearly talented writing/acting staff.
There are some weird ones I could have sworn I heard a French accent from the gunships
Have you considered that all accents are American? It's almost like you never seen glory fly.
“Yo eh what does the Union need, Yeah?” I can imagine the scout from tf2 being absolutely livid fighting for Usonia, as long as he can bash skulls in
President: *deal with it discreetly*
*Steampunk Titanfall 2 intro plays*
Iron Harvest is Dieselpunk.
It is felony waiting to happen
Rimmy's surprise when the news reporter has a gun. He forgets all Americans are just born with firearms.
Can confirm, was born with a .50 AE Desert Eagle
Can confirm was born with a single action shotgun in hand
If they aren't born with one, they spontaniously produce them in response to danger.
Indeed. Anyone born in Wyoming is born with a Smith & Wesson.
Yup i was born with a m1 carbine
"Scorched earth" is just avatar the last airbenders ozais airship when the comet is present.
With one glaring weakness: Airship Slice.
The Phoenix King.
Damn, got there before I could
I was about to comment the same thing lmao
Anywhere: has oil* America, *American music In the background* DID SOMEONE ORDER SOME FUCKING FREDOM!
*can control the other persons units in co-op* nothing could ever go wrong.
that's not co-op, that's double single player.
You can do that on starcraft 2 multiplayer/coop as well
One player is the league of nations and watches the other player commit warcrimes
@@frodosfrostbite worng
@@mustafaselimibis3186 archon mode rings any bell?
Americans in the Iron harvest universe literally invented Steel Rain
Imagine the whole SPESS MAHREENS speech, but with a comedy Boston accent. I never knew I needed something this much in life.
@@demicus someone needs to do that!!!!!
They are gonna be very scared when someone breaks their methul bawxes.
We invented it irl I mean what :flushed:
ODST shit
"We should intervene, Mr. President."
"No. Building empires is wrong."
"They stole our factories though!"
"The Declaration of Independence names this maneuver 'Special Interests.'"
One of the most important roles that the Founding Fathers laid out for the federal government to fulfill was protecting the private property of American citizens, when foreign powers start expropriating American property our government is obligated to act on our behalf in defense of our property rights. I'm not saying I approve of American imperialism and our wars for strategic control of middle eastern oil and all that, but if Rusviet was stealing *my* shit up in Alaska I'd expect the government to do something about it.
@@robertmartin6800 especially given they signed up and said they were cool with it to suddenly start executing people treaty be damned
You mean the constitution?
@@thatkidfromsubway3702 So glad someone else caught it. It was bugging the hell out of me. lol
In the Adeptus Mechanicus archives of ancient Terra, the inspiration for Assault Marine armor patterns and combat doctrine came from the once named, "Usonians".
That's bullshit
But I believe it
I knew it, the emperor is murican
@@adhiwicaksono6149 the god emperor is literally a native american with bold eagle mold on his pauldrons
@@digitbit3180 There is no material claiming Emps is american in any way, native or otherwise. His origins claim hes from Anatolia, so hes Turkish. But also, it literally doesnt matter, his actual ethnic group likely died out or was assimilated in the 40000+ years between his birth and his rulership of mankind.
@@BurningFyre if he was born before the Seljuq invasion, which he is considering he was apparently also Jesus, he's more likely to be greek
Imagine being a Prussian conscript stationed in Arabia and seeing a walking tank covered in American flags crest a hill followed by 100 camels with gatling guns strapped to their humps.
“We have an advantage they sorely lack... ZEPPELINS!”
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference
Oops did I accidentally a war?
People of polania we are here to save you
Oh thank God it's the Americans
From yourselves
Oh no it's the Americans
@@johnmacneill7489 Only America can invade Warsaw without firing a shot.
@@johnmacneill7489 Me, a Filipino:Here we go again...
The reporter looks so incredibly goofy in his firing stance.
And I love it.
His reputation for misogyny is legendary.
he is Teddy Roosevelt right ?
@@kornaktanker7633 looks like him lol
@@kornaktanker7633 I doubt it, Teddy was not against interventionism in the slightest, at least, when it was in our own sphere of influence. He wanted Europe out of the Americas and was not afraid to go to war if need be. An example of that would be his reaction to the Venezuela crisis in 1903 with the Roosevelt corollary.
The voice actors sound like they're mocking their own accents
as they should
@@kinosaga21 why?
@@kinosaga21 why?
Except for the Admiral.
@@Ajvt-ux4ec causs thats kinda the thing with this game isnt it? its a exagerated alt history of real life i mean some of the polish and russian voice actors were also SUPER hammy at times but its all fun and well written kind of ham for a outthere yet familer game like this
That american exosuit guy just... "The Codex Astartes does not support this action Captain"
"Shut the fuck up, Leandros. FOR THE EMPEROR!"
Most people when seeing airships: "oh cool ships"
Me: *"WE ARE THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL!"*
I mean to be fair the Brotherhood is the US Military
@@Bluesonofman specifally a offshoot of the mariens if i remeber correctly.
@@wilmagregg3131 no just army and national guard the marines stuck with the enclave
@@wilmagregg3131 They were an army unit based at Mariposa who mutined after seeing the FEV-related bullshit that was going on. Said mutiny would have been put down _hard,_ except for the fact that it happened on 20 October 2077
@@Smeghead76 yeah i know i just couldnt remeber what branch of miltary maxon and his unit was so i assumed it was marines consiering they were given power armour and told to guard mariaposa which i assumed would be a spec ops job
"Deal with it discretely"
*best Danny DeVito voice* "SO ANYWAYS I STARTED BLASTIN'"
The opening reminds me of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine’s intro cutscene
@@Simelineon Shut the hell up Leandros. FOR THE EMPEROR!
@@shannoncollins7480 LOUD SPACEMARINE NOISES
Shit, Masons suit does look like prototype power armor dont it.
MONETARY VALUE ABSOLUTE
@@KillerOrca kinda reminds me of a centurion
i really think the developers did a great job of capturing the traditional American philosophy of just strapping a bunch of machineguns to shit and calling it a day.
M2 medium tank intensifies
“Use a gun, and if that don’t work, use more gun”
Captain Mason: single handedly wins battles with little support from the rest of the armed forces and goes above and beyond the aims of the mission
Admiral Mason: "and i took that personally"
Randolph: God-King of the Sands and Investigative Journalism
Wait, the reporter’s name is Randolph?
Why do I feel like this might be a reference to William Randolph Hearst...
Never have I been more proud to share a name with a fictional character(better than my usual association with Randy Marsh)
Usonia is literally Fallout's US Army and BoS but steampunk.
Dieselpunk*
@@Quilly_DM That's debatable.
@@dashiellgillingham4579 In fact is half and half.
@@dashiellgillingham4579 actually pure Dieselpunk.
@@dashiellgillingham4579 they use diesel and it takes place during the inter war period not steam Victorian era so therfor it's dieselpunk
"That was a nice cut"
It was, it's a reference to Laurence of Arabia.
The Enclave Salutes the America of another World!
You’re fucking right we do.
@@PENTAGRAMMAINCOMM ad victoriam you traitors
@@leifbirgerolsen9167 I don’t speak Korean. Sorry.
(Yes, that was a joke.)
@@PENTAGRAMMAINCOMM Hows your oil rig
This comment is great
If I may say a word:
*MURICA.*
That is all.
*A*merica
They didn't fight a war of independance just to have a first-letter-less continent to live in.
The Stormbringers "Scorched Earth" ability reminds me of Avatar when the fire nation starts burning the earth kingdom from their blimp airships
Iron Harvest's world building is honestly some of the best in video games in years
its honestly so great its approach is simple yet very well done take the 1920s alter and exagetate while smoothing down some harsher bits of history while adding tons of steampunk tech and mechs.
apparently there is also a united aztlan country a guess a aztec empire that never was conquered replacing mexico and some unknown equivalent of canada that actually sided with there version of the Usa instead of the britsh equivalent from the very begining adding them in wars suggesting a even close relationship then RL usa and canada
@@wilmagregg3131 plus I’m pretty sure Britain doesn’t exist in this, the Scot’s won in this universe. I believe it’s clan Albion (can’t exactly remember their name) that rules the Great Britain.
@@flamingsmore5904 the darkest timeline
@@wilmagregg3131 Laurentia is the Canada of this verse, they united with US that's why it's called Usonia. United States of North America.
Remember that all of this happened due to one painting. Look it up!
"cut the chatter, protect the refinery!"
Yup, definitely playing as America
Love the smell of airship in the morning.
"Discretely" - sends a big mouthed reporter with them.
I love how they made the Americans AS AMERICAN AS POSSIBLE
“Hippity hoppity, your oil’s my property.” - Usonia
That sounds like some Tex of the black pants legion said also death to the clanners and the capellans hail and respect comstar pay your taxes fucko.
*Shit, is the blood ravens*
I like how every mech is literally the principle of "overkill is not optional it's mandatory" or my personal favorite "there is no such thing as too much dakka"
I love how all of the American mechs are just tractors with guns strapped to them
You ain't wrong mate
Imagine how cool a battletech style mech game set in the Iron Harvest world would be
Plot twist, this is Battletech past.
With this art style it would be pretty cool!
Think someone should tell the devs Lawrence of Arabia is british
But then they couldn’t make their incredibly unsubtle gulf war/war on terror analogy.
@@1ManRandom The analogy was about as discreet as the Usonian invasion of Alaska.
Well, when you have giant robots walking around WW1, I think your allowed to make changes like that.
Plus I don't think we've seen a Britian counterpart. So far all we know there isn't one
@@Mobysimo Avalon or something like that is britian
gret britan
"We lead by example, not show of force!"
Uhhhhhhm... yeah...
*Vietnam intensifies*
Hey! The French started it. We were just being good interventionist neighbors.
Well war in Vietnam was an example of something.
We are just not sure of what exactly.
America, a bunch of farmers, won its war of independence against the strongest military in the world. Then it becomes the strongest military in the world and loses to a bunch of farmers
@@pointlessaccount0648 farmers are the paper to the worlds largest rock
Ain't letting the CIA dictate wars for you such a grand idea?
Can you imagine if Arabia actually had oil AND ninja waifus? America's pull out game in the Middle East is already spotty enough because of oil, we'd freakin annex the region in this alt universe.
Why do you think it’s the 1920s in this universe?
I tried to remember FOR TWO hours who was the voice actor for George (The Admiral). Then realised it was Vesemir.
Love how the stereotype of the US in this game is just ‘lets predict all the MIC and self interest that happens’!
It’s funny, because it’s true.
It has the nice subtlety of 50 rockets bombing the land.
@@Predator20357 in another series it would be tasteless but in iron harvest every nation is a extreme version of the ideas of modern nations from SUPER tsar and soviet rusviet russia to the not seen in game imperial japan eqivalent with full on shogun mechs etc etc
@@wilmagregg3131 If they didn’t have all the other countries be Extreme Versions of themselves, it would totally be tasteless however, it still wouldn’t be that bad as we are dealing with a game where a Polish Mech Scopes a Bear and the child of that Bear comes in morning the lost of its mother.
10:00 "it's a gunship as in its an airship built around a gun"
Well that is *very literally* how the A-10 was designed and made.
This is a bit more jank and crude.
"I'll send in our best man" *is going in himself*
I get it, he's extremely humble
15:04 also can we have some Fortunate Son over there?
I know I’m late but, *”WELCOME TO ARABIA GENTLEMEN.”*
Are you going to try the new Gates of Hell: Ostfront? It's a Men of War "sequel" with the new gem2 engine. Free beta if you own Call to arms.
>Call to arms
Still salty about buying that piece of shit while it was in early access. How far the developers of MoW: AS2 have fallen... And let's not forget how bad Men of War: Cold War was...
@@matchesburn I’ve seen other videos of it. Seems pretty good ngl
@@sithtrooper1948
Uh, watch Rimmy's video on it. It's shit. Actually, so is Call to Arms, but I don't think he did a video on that.
@@matchesburn Call to Arms is a lot better now and also has a hardcore(realism) mode too now.
@@matchesburn I hope this new game is better than those disappoonting games
honestly when i see the keel flamethrowers on the massive airships all i see is the firelords attack during sozin’s comet
It is that, it is just that
this whole game is like Baby's First Warhammer with a dash of steampunk here and there
Dieselpunk, not steampunk.
Horsey!
Hayden?
@@hossdelgado626 was goody chief
@@thatponybro6940 Didnt expect to find you here, lmao
Alternative title: *rimmy plays iron harvest: adventures of big dicc Marty in the Yukon dlc*
27:00 Just like the americans with early ww2 tanks,put a 50. cal wherever you can and then add some more
American warships were similar except with 40mm Bofors instead of .50 cal
@@gokbay3057 that moment 1 Cruiser has more AA capability than an Army has 🤣🤣🤣
@@Voron_Aggrav the joke goes that if there is open deck space you should add more guns, if you can't, put a guy with a bazooka or some other weapon there and have him stand there.
@@gokbay3057 indeed a good way of using space
"Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun."
- TF2 Engineer
The Codex Astartes calls this maneuver "Steel Rain"
Randal is just the TFC2 civilian.
"I may not be wasting my money after all!"
11:19 we call this move "The Ozai".
Iron Harvest needs to become a legitimate franchise. I need a FPSRPG and a whole HOI4 type game or even mod for HOI4 from it
I love how so many generic, troubled American soldiers are named Mason in fiction.
If it works, don’t fix it!
Reminds me in big red one when they find a ww1 monument and someone goes “It’s the same names?”
And the Sergeant replies “Its always the same names”
Laugh in rusvyet KGB agent name Bell
The numbers, Mason! What do they mean!?
When you want to comment about the American Intervention in the Middle East but you set your setting in 1920s:
When you realize you have Alternate History: Free Real Estate
I'm sure everyone and their mother has done this premise before. But at least this game doesn't take itself seriously on that regard because everyone in the lore is a hyped up version of real empires/countries in the 20s.
@@altechelghanforever9906 Sounds about mostly right though if we went with hyped up version of 1920s America, the main campaign would be just about political games about how the world is not our fucking problem and how every mech would have 10 MGs covering all sides, oh and Al Capone being in a super mech and is the main villain.
Though like you said, the game does not take itself seriously, like there's no way you can make Polish diesel punk mechs scoping bears and using bayonets seriously without a lack of self-awareness which this game has.
Franklin Roosevelt met with the Saudi King to hash out a defense-for-oil deal as early as 1945, so all told IH was only 20-ish years off.
@@Mikey-xz4vn Not exactly, for the meeting was very much peaceful and the deal was made to get the British away from the Oil Reserves since the King wanted to be in America’s influence instead, with the oil for defense most likely being after the meeting.
It may be the reason why the US ensures Saudi Arabia’s security but it’s definitely not what the Devs have been inspired by, if they did then they took quite a few liberties of such an event and instead decided to take most of it from the 1990s US Intervention and perhaps the puppet leaders as well.
As a masshole I appreciate that the mech literally named Salem is only allowed to be piloted by Bostonians
6:12 Max0r has evolved from the Hat Loli it seems.
At least his Ace Combat 7 video was epic...
The Watame addiction dates back to at least the Half-Life Alyx video, he's deep in the hole.
+@@scorpixel1866+ I think he's privated or unlisted the Hat Kid videos except for the Bazinga one. Maybe he's improving?
I am glad Simpkin is now known as that guy who blew himself and two Chaos marines up
I've got a friend who's going to be running a 5e Campaign heavily inspired by Iron Harvest for me and some buddies, it's gonna be fantastic.
Okay so that Camera bot really reminded me of something, I don't know if anyone else has but a few years ago I read a books series called "Leviathan" where it's an alterante ww1 with the central powers having mechs and the allies having biotech, and I can't help but think how awesome that setting would be. God I wish I could mod cause I would try and do that in this game.
"Its better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission"
I feel like I've heard that from somewhere and i can't remember where
It's a common phrase. You've probably heard it in many things.
@@cibo889 It means you do something you may not be allowed to, and then ask for forgiveness later, rather than try to get permission for it beforehand and likely being denied.
@@cibo889 The forgiveness is for doing something without asking for permission first. Keep in mind this phrase isn't entirely literal, it's not saying they're going to explicitly ask for forgiveness once everything is over. The phrase just means sometimes it's better to do what you need to without asking for approval, first, and then deal with the consequences of that once you're done. In the case of this cutscene, the idea is they'd never get permission to deploy in the middle east if they asked for it, so they'll do it secretly, and, assuming their mission is successful, the result will be so good that their superiors won't be too mad about it.
@@tripodranger7873 Sounds exactly what Washington DC did when they found out Andrew Jackson overdid his orders concerning Florida (ie he invaded and annexed it instead of stopping by the border)...
OH HELL YEAH! RIMMY IS BACK ON IRON HARVEST AND ITS THE NEW CAMPAIGN! i actually specificely watched NOTHING about this until rimmy uploaded! always a good laugh with the aussies downunder!
Yes! You finally covered this. You should try the Rusviet Revolution after.
So happy that this is up now.
also..... 'MURICA!!!!
U.S. President: We lead by example, not by threat of force.
Me, an American, looks at military budget: *Visible confusion*
Usonia is a different USA. Very similar timelines though, as Usonia did expand westward, and still went to war with Spain.
Key differences though is that Usonia maintained a heavier degree of isolationism than its real world counterpart. It didn't buy Alaska from Russia, and didn't intervene in the first world war.
And if Iron Harvest's description is to be taken at face value, it is also exceedingly more tolerant, as Usonia will treat all citizens as first class citizens no matter who they are. Even allowing them to keep their culture, religion, and other ties from their homeland as long as they swear loyalty first and foremost to Usonia.
@@54lolman thanks for sharing but my post was for humor. I realize that the game takes place in an alternate universe.
@@TheDesertFox1940 Oh my apologies then!
@@54lolman Doesn’t the US allow you to keep all those things right now? I don’t think the US forcibly converts migrants lmao! Ignorant comment
@@Mr.Byrnes In our current day and age yes, but I am not referring to our laws and regulations in the modern day. I am referring to the eras which the game takes place in specifically for the alternate USA, known as Usonia.
For in our history during the eras after world war one. The USA had tried at multiple points in its history forcefully convert the Native populations to its culture. As well as treated various other races and what have you as second class citizens. Hell, one of the main factors why we gave up our possession over the Philippines was because our senators both Dem and Rep. Pushed for laws to ban or at least limit Filipino immigrants, (don't ask me why they couldn't do this while in possession of the Philippines I do not want to get the book out.).
So, unlike the USA in our timeline, according to the games wiki. The alternate history USA, known as Usonia was more tolerant, and instead allowed first class citizenship to all civilians within the nation. As long as they swore loyalty to Usonia first and foremost of course.
The politics is heavy handed, but I feel like we've been getting subtle commentary in games for years now and it's all gone over people's heads so I'm actually liking this new heavy handed approach in gaming. Same thing happening on the latest Destiny season.
Closest thing I know to tell Rimmy for an RPG set in Iron Harvest would be home brewing the setting with Mekton Zetta. Its an old system, and therefore pretty expensive to get the books, but the PDFs are usually cheap. Also rather simple dice mechanics wise, everything being a D10 + Skill level + relevant Stat level vs a DC, no obtuse modifiers on the players end. As far as video game RPGs go... I got nothing. Maybe something similar to Front Mission?
In the word of Heavenly and RussianBadger: "Nah, I heard oil! *THAT SHIT IS MINE!!* "
*National Anthem intensifies*
I just realized the Usonian mechs are based on American wildlife.
Salem is based on a dinosaur
Knox is a tortoise
Stark is a bison
Attucks is a beetle
Only one of those is mainly american
zero dislikes
perfectly balanced
as all things should be
So after I watched this I went and rewatch Ed the entire iron harvest play list then watched this again!!! So ready for part 2 keep up the awsome work rimmy and PATRON SAINT OF THE GUARD SIMPKIN!!!
the emporer protects
14:55 That's a fucking "Lawrence of Arabia" reference, I fucking love it!!!
15:08
America: "Remain calm. We are here to liberate your country's oil. Er, I mean, we're here to liberate your country."
“Hahah debatable”
Sounds like you want to be liberated, wise crack
I'm a minute and a half in and already this is so true it hurts.
Visit america before america visit you dude
@@muhammadsakkaakdamana1450 America is literally a crack addict that has enough ordinance to blow the Earth off its axis. Just don't ask questions or look him in the eye and he'll hopefully leave without doing at least one bombing run.
@@Cotac_Rastic As an American that is the greatest analogy about America ever.
@@Cotac_Rastic based
@@Cotac_Rastic Well the US technically did blow the Axis to kingdom come, right?
Damn it not even 2000s and they already doing interventions
The most american of pastimes interventions.
@@Zretgul_timerunner At this point it is considered rude for America to not be in an intervention for their monetary interests
@@NetAnon It’s true! Every country must do something that’s wrong and America chooses Foreign intervention for money as people would care more if they invaded Canada
As an American...I approve.
As an Alaskan, I almost went rabid at the words "Alaska under Russviet control." because that implies that the US in this alternative history is retarded. Alaska cost 2 cents an acre, for a total cost of 7.2 million dollars. Seward's "Ice chest" happens to be full of gold!
Very art deco designs, seeing some "Mercury", "Daylight", and Class J steam train designs for the mechs maybe even some Super Cheif thrown in there.
this looks way more fun than the main campaign!
6:52 Not until Franklin D. Roosevelt decides America should be the world police.
To be fair, the heavy isolationism wasn’t great for the country. We were going to have to interact with the rest of the world at some point so it was better that we steered things in the direction most beneficial to us.
Love the American theme so much it’s extremely American also the Salem is so Dieselpunk
it's baaack!!!
yes, good
"Deal with the situation... but discreatly"
**FLYS IN BIG ASS AIRSHIPS**
So, Usonia is basically a mix of Columbia from BioShock and the Brotherhood of Stee from Fallout.
Every hero has thier animal companion , wojtek the bear , nacht and tag the wolves , changa the tiger , and ....mech suit the turret !
I like iron harvest
It talks about stuff from that time period alot with some new stuff as well
If you dont know, in the 1900s to the 40s the us was very anti interventionist and didnt want to actually go to war and intervene in conflicts prefering to be left alone.
That stance changed after ww2 where the red scare and Korea happened with the us becoming it's overbearing interventionalist self
The hover bikes are interesting, it's funny because the US military experimented with combar hover platforms back in the 50's, but you had to stand on them and the military has swung back around to the idea, but the new ones you sit on.
The Hiller 'Pawnee' basically has a guy standing over a large propeller. And the Williams X-jet was nicknamed the flying pulpit, and it looks like something you would see a battle sister or priest use in 40k (minus the guns).
The sitdown bike idea has been considered in newer designs.
We need the second part now please and thank you!
Hey Rimmy/comment section, don't know if your a reader but "Leviathan" by Westerfeld might be a great book if you like ww1 mechs. Basically, the axis have walking mechanical battleships and stuff while the allies have animalesque "animals". Russians, for example, have giant bears with forts on their backs. Can't remember the age range of the books but I remember it was badass. Enjoyed the video! 👍
*Brother hood of steel intensifies*
15:06 *SOME FOLKS ARE BORN, MAADE TO WAVE THE FLAG, OOH THAT RED AND WHITE BLUE*
Ground smells of Oil, Sky screams Freedom.
Also, is anyone else kind of upset at the failed opportunity (at least what I see as a failed opportunity) to have Mason Sr. be a Red Herring and have either the Uncle or the New Reporter be the main villain? Still like the story, just felt that this would've been a good opportunity to subvert expectations well.
ehh maybe but it's romp besides the ending is perfect
18:10
It is good to see the Metal Slug cammels still have a job.
leave it to the Americans to invent space marines.
Bruh those camels are literally just technicals and I love it
Finally they added fredom to the game
That first scene with the zeppelins had kinda the same vibe as the BoS entering the Commonwealth in Fallout 4, after you've killed Kellogg. It was amazing.
Simpkin is our saint
those camels with machine guns were an actual thing. The Persians called them Zamburaks, which typically featured gatling guns or swivel guns, and holy fuck I'm so happy they added them to the game.
I’m betting the lag is due to the physics of the grass and foliage kicking in when you zoom in