The first mistake was thinking ISP was going to do an actually hard challenge, even this one was cheesed by using nukes. It doesnt matter what units you use if you can just nuke the enemy divisions until they have no equipment and organization.
"This is Tannu Tuva speaking. You need to help our war effort by getting occupied by Germany, giving them access to all of your vital natural resources." "Yes."
Special forces only. Play as Britain and for your land units you can only build Rangers, Marines, Mountaineers, and paratroopers. Navy and Airforce allowed.
I feel like the special forces cap would make this impossible. You literally can't train more special forces than a certain % of your full army last I checked.
@@deltainfinium869 well, he could use the 1 brigade trick, deploy a crapton of them, switch all of them to 40 width, deploy all his special force then disband the 40width.
@@deltainfinium869not really, shared instructors from the mountaineers doctrine would make the cap so high it would no longer matter there being a cap. 20% capacity multiplier kinda a lot.
Macarthur yelling at Truman after getting his rejection to nuke the 39th in this timeline. "STALIN BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! WITH THE CORPSES OF MILLIONS AND SOME SCRAPS!"
Only paratroopers. you have infantry to hold but the only way you can push is with paratroopers. Only planes you can use is fighters to get air superiority and transports of course.
He did half of these new videos six years ago. He's on a SpongeBob-esque content rotation. Can't say I blame him though, there's only so much you can do in one game@@snowhusky6689
Yes, the rodent railway artillery was OP because it was stronger than a nuke and you didn't need air superiority to use them. I don't remember if it was a late game tech?
What’s funny is that guns only will destroy max buffed Germany on elite difficulty too.. in 1943 no less. The way to do this is to always be grinding them down as long as you have guns in stockpile. The more you grind their manpower, the better it will be. By 1943 I got the germans down to 20m casualties and back to Berlin. I took about 30m casualties
ISP "Can You Beat Hearts Of Iron IV With ONLY Infantry? " Me having over 3000 hours in game and while literally never designing a tank and only crafting one mechanized unit during 8+ years of playing "Probably yes..." ISP "No plains and only guns in infantry" Me: _____ / \ | O O | | ---- | \ ___ / | | | | / \ | | | |
Its funny, cause thats basically everyone if my hoi4 playthroughs. Neglect air and navy, dont have industry for medium tanks so get stuck with a small handful of light tanks, and just steamroll with infantry because making trucks takes too many factories.
“How do I have Turkish artillery?” That one guy who got captured by Turkey 12 times: “You would NOT believe how intense these escape plans are needing to get 😐”
Here’s a difficult challenge play as Germany in Kaiserreich but set every country that can to go socialist/ align with the third international and win the second weltkrieg
Another Challenge: maximum casualities! You don't want to win a war, you destroy their manpower, i.e. holding frontlines, just encirceling, dropping nuxes.
You could theoretically do this infinitely since populations do actually grow in hoi4. A guy named DiscardPixel managed to inflict a billion casualties as Germany
1946, Special Purpose School near Moscow, bulletin board in the main building - "Don't miss out on todays free admitance lecture at the main hall , presented by Alexander Radó : "Infamous turkish prison - the myth , the legend , the experience" "
The way to really do this is to make a jagged line so that the enemy frontline is as thin as possible, while you still have 5+ infantry divisions per tile!
WOW that challenge sure was hard! it looked _totally_ insane... but do you know what would be even more challenging? playing *Hearts of Iron 3* (seriously ISP why no HOI3 on the channel???)
Easiest challenge, hell, you don't even need guns if you have enough people Just convert that tiny battalion to a chonky one They might not have guns, but the AI won't push you either, so... (You can actually push sometimes, don't ask me how though, I guess fist beats guns and tanks) Although the late game always becomes a nukefest with the AI stacked divisions I mean, you could naval invade, It's not like every coastal province will be defended at once Although guns help, like, to the point where you can beat any natio, just ignore the casualties and grind on!
I'd suggest marine-italy: you can only fight on a frontline, thats open by your marines. This way you'd have to focus on navy, planes and you'd need to escape the mediterrainian sea to be useful and probably need to fight turkey.
What about nothing only challenge? As the USA, don't have any active units or planes. You can lend lease your allies and give them garrison support. (Idk if you did this one but I just think this would be hilarious. I call it the drew durnil challenge.)
Swedish casualties reached 900k not including civilian casualties....Sweden had a population of 6.5mil in 1944-45. That's about 14% of the Swedish population dead fighting Germany.
From the inventors of The Iron Courtain comes: The Bullet Courtain And well, then the last bit of the trilogy we tend to not speak about: The Molten Iron Courtain
I wonder if there are any other Og viewers who remember where did the intro “hello gravy babies” actually came from. It came years before I don’t remember the exact video but ISP saw a video of faze banks and he sounded like he said “gravy babies” so he took it as an intro, so yea that’s where the intro came from I don’t know if ISP even remembers at this point 😅
everyone screaming artillery while I'm over here with airplanes only. really subject you to the whims of the AI and forcing you to make friends. oh and navy because. Well because.
Special Forces Only would be kinda neat to see, especially with the latest updates. Doesn't mean you can't make any regular infantry, you just can't use them. *Air would be allowed as well to enable paratrooper usage.
Can't wait for the alf landon playthrough. It would be even funnier if the USA had an electoral college in hoi4 and you had to campaign and stuff because fun fact: Alf Landon in our timeline won *eight* electoral votes
1:05 I just realized that the desert area in south-central Russia looks like a very angry disembodied head with a bleeding hole in it eating Iran. That lake, is that Baikonur, where the cosmodrome would be during the Cold War?
IIRC, there was one "true" way to still do this, if you wanted to bite the bullet and install road to 56. You can put nukes on tier 3 rockets and launch them that way. You might still need air superiority, though, I can't quite remmeber.
This is the equivalent of seeing a man stand at the beaches of Normany, shooting directly into the sands, hoping to break the back of the German war machine
So in this episode he demonstrates the power of a proper rolling thunder tactic… except instead of artillery and a battle, he has used nukes and the entire war.
We've had artillery only We've had tonk only We've had aircraft only Now we need... 1 infantry 1 tank 1 artillery 1 mech 1 motorized 1 support company template only (11 width with 1 of each, give or take other types)
Here's a weird challenge. In fact, no, I'm lying, this is a straight up masochistic challenge. Like, its so masochistic it basically feels like a paradox steam achievement but slightly harder. Conquer the equivalent of the mongol empire at its peak with Mengkukuo. While keeping Demchugdongrub in power. Cavalry only (but any support companies are permitted). It's somewhat reasonable to do in mods like New Ways and RT56, but still very difficult, and in vanilla.... well, have fun, and good luck making use of that random out-of-nowhere buff to Demchugdongrub's leader trait that gave him an additional +10% range and naval attack on his naval bombers. A uh.. perfect pair for his generic focus tree (despite Waking the Tiger existing and being an asia dlc that gave Germany a focus tree) and +5% cavalry attack. Yeah. edit: And I do mean no navy or airforce. Except for naval bombers. Those are allowed. Otherwise you wouldn't be taking advantage of the very important buff he got! edit2: Oh, and a little tip. Any effect that says it applies to "All Infantry and Motorized" is not going to help you. If you look at the list of units those effect, they do not benefit cavalry whatsoever. Cavalry benefits from bonuses to cavalry, and bonuses to "all divisions" literally. That's it. Other than that, you're basically going to need to rely on buffing your support companies, which is why allowing that makes this even somewhat reasonable to do in a manner that is at all fun or entertaining or generally realistic for even the insane.
Wouldn't it be funny if you would do this but with artillery? Hehe, just imagine
how bout antitank only
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Dont put more people in a psychiatric hospital evil man
Flamentank only
-Infantry Only Challenge!
-Chooses Soviet Union
-"Challenge"
Nationalist China with GP right path. Unstoppable infantry.
That'd be China
"Challenge"
Infinite manpower
1 unit world conquest, should be easy for ISP when legit burger did it lol
Shut up
The first mistake was thinking ISP was going to do an actually hard challenge, even this one was cheesed by using nukes. It doesnt matter what units you use if you can just nuke the enemy divisions until they have no equipment and organization.
Ah so just the way I normally play
Agreed
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Me 🤝 Shitty infantry Template 🤝 Console commands
Nothing says good strategy like force attacking with 100 divisions from 1 tile with no supply
HA! I give my horrible infantry 1 support artillery and 1 engineer. It doesn't change anything, but it makes me feel smart
ARTILLERY ONLY WHEN?????
AA ONLY
AT ONLY
ROCKET ARTILLERY ONLY AS TANNA TUVA
@@johndudesmen48☠️
AT ONLY AS ECUADOR
"This is Tannu Tuva speaking. You need to help our war effort by getting occupied by Germany, giving them access to all of your vital natural resources."
"Yes."
A Tannu Tuvan is speaking
Listen and learn
Nice job pdx the continuation war starts even though there was no winter war and no reason for the finns to be vengeful for having their land taken
because the ussr simply existing isn't enough to justify a war for the finns?
the kola peninsula is RIGHTFULLY FINNISH CLAY
@@AngryFrenchPenguinbut it’s not a continuation of anything
It could be continuation of the Finnish Civil War - get the reds hiding in Russia
@@Theindianapatriotcontinuation of a dramatic bar fight that got out of control
Special forces only. Play as Britain and for your land units you can only build Rangers, Marines, Mountaineers, and paratroopers. Navy and Airforce allowed.
I feel like the special forces cap would make this impossible. You literally can't train more special forces than a certain % of your full army last I checked.
@@deltainfinium869I think in that case using a mod is acceptable.
@@deltainfinium869 well, he could use the 1 brigade trick, deploy a crapton of them, switch all of them to 40 width, deploy all his special force then disband the 40width.
@@deltainfinium869not really, shared instructors from the mountaineers doctrine would make the cap so high it would no longer matter there being a cap. 20% capacity multiplier kinda a lot.
How about mountaineers only as the Swiss?
Macarthur yelling at Truman after getting his rejection to nuke the 39th in this timeline.
"STALIN BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! WITH THE CORPSES OF MILLIONS AND SOME SCRAPS!"
Only paratroopers. you have infantry to hold but the only way you can push is with paratroopers. Only planes you can use is fighters to get air superiority and transports of course.
Or you could pull the strat where you can only paradrop on victory points
He did this 6 years ago
He did half of these new videos six years ago. He's on a SpongeBob-esque content rotation. Can't say I blame him though, there's only so much you can do in one game@@snowhusky6689
imagine if he did it with that cannon thing.. i cant put my finger on it.. perhaps a sneaky rat too
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Rat artillery?
Rodent railguns are too op, glad they removed them
Yes, the rodent railway artillery was OP because it was stronger than a nuke and you didn't need air superiority to use them. I don't remember if it was a late game tech?
@@Anders_Lund thats the one
What’s funny is that guns only will destroy max buffed Germany on elite difficulty too.. in 1943 no less. The way to do this is to always be grinding them down as long as you have guns in stockpile. The more you grind their manpower, the better it will be. By 1943 I got the germans down to 20m casualties and back to Berlin. I took about 30m casualties
Hearts of iron 4 meat grinder edition
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Hearts of Iron 4 average USSR game edition
Hearts of Iron 4 normal gameplay addition
Hearts of Iron 4: Chinese edition
Wheels only could be fun! Armoured cars, motorized, rocket arty trucks, wheeled tanks etc
Katusha intensifies
The Mad Max challenge
The American challenge
I’ve done it before. It is absolutely glorious
5:29 sir Stalin, two hundreds units are ready and a million are on the way.
Exactly what I was thinking
ISP "Can You Beat Hearts Of Iron IV With ONLY Infantry? "
Me having over 3000 hours in game and while literally never designing a tank and only crafting one mechanized unit during 8+ years of playing "Probably yes..."
ISP "No plains and only guns in infantry"
Me:
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>No tanks
>No planes
>No Support AA
>No Engineers
>No Arty
Wow, he is literally me 😐💀
Planes* not Plains
underrated commit
@@capiscrazy9732what are you going to commit
Its funny, cause thats basically everyone if my hoi4 playthroughs. Neglect air and navy, dont have industry for medium tanks so get stuck with a small handful of light tanks, and just steamroll with infantry because making trucks takes too many factories.
14:27 Aha I see you are doing the Belkan (ace combat zero) strategy of NUKING YOUR OWN BORDER
Nukes in Hoi4 aren't like real life radiation isn't really a thing
they cant invade us if there's nothing to invade
he calls this a challenge, i call this a regular hoi4 game
heres a challenge for you:
bring out the rat!!!
“How do I have Turkish artillery?”
That one guy who got captured by Turkey 12 times: “You would NOT believe how intense these escape plans are needing to get 😐”
Alf Landon Anti Tank only
Little you know that AT have nukes
Here’s a difficult challenge play as Germany in Kaiserreich but set every country that can to go socialist/ align with the third international and win the second weltkrieg
The alt universe where the PPS-43 was more widely-produced than the AKM lol
hello everyone this is taureor
this is how I used to play HOI4.
Now I only produce motorised and light tanks
"Let's not talk about the ethical question of me creating a nuclear barrier on my own land."
-Belka, 1995
Another Challenge: maximum casualities! You don't want to win a war, you destroy their manpower, i.e. holding frontlines, just encirceling, dropping nuxes.
So war crimes💀
You could theoretically do this infinitely since populations do actually grow in hoi4. A guy named DiscardPixel managed to inflict a billion casualties as Germany
1946, Special Purpose School near Moscow, bulletin board in the main building - "Don't miss out on todays free admitance lecture at the main hall , presented by Alexander Radó : "Infamous turkish prison - the myth , the legend , the experience" "
YOUVE HEARD OF SPACE MARINE BUILDS? NOW INTRODUCING IMPERIAL GUARD BUILDS!
Average taureor playthrough
Taureor: So, the way I normally play?
ISP: “It’s also pretty painful”
Me, who basically only spams infantry for the entire game:
The way to really do this is to make a jagged line so that the enemy frontline is as thin as possible, while you still have 5+ infantry divisions per tile!
Somebody say something controversial so that ISP gets more attention. WE NEED ALF LANDON
WOW that challenge sure was hard! it looked _totally_ insane... but do you know what would be even more challenging? playing *Hearts of Iron 3* (seriously ISP why no HOI3 on the channel???)
I like how you flipped turkey to prevent.a war with the allies, only for turkey to still start a war with the allies
I'd honestly like to see more unique plays like this, also, Sweden held on the whole time...
Huh
Horse only, but as Egypt, and you have to control all territories of the ilkhanate by the end of the game
Wow what a cool concept, i wonder if something similar would be possible with artillery!
7:38 "We got a lot of men on the field... and uh we are most certainly playing the numbers game as these guys aren't very good"
Easiest challenge, hell, you don't even need guns if you have enough people
Just convert that tiny battalion to a chonky one
They might not have guns, but the AI won't push you either, so... (You can actually push sometimes, don't ask me how though, I guess fist beats guns and tanks)
Although the late game always becomes a nukefest with the AI stacked divisions
I mean, you could naval invade, It's not like every coastal province will be defended at once
Although guns help, like, to the point where you can beat any natio, just ignore the casualties and grind on!
I'd suggest marine-italy: you can only fight on a frontline, thats open by your marines. This way you'd have to focus on navy, planes and you'd need to escape the mediterrainian sea to be useful and probably need to fight turkey.
What about nothing only challenge? As the USA, don't have any active units or planes. You can lend lease your allies and give them garrison support. (Idk if you did this one but I just think this would be hilarious. I call it the drew durnil challenge.)
Challenge: Play as italy but use only the Blackshirt divisions, the camicie nere ones, and try to reform Rome.
Swedish casualties reached 900k not including civilian casualties....Sweden had a population of 6.5mil in 1944-45. That's about 14% of the Swedish population dead fighting Germany.
only armored car, when? 🗣️💯🔥
Thats usually most my game, might have like 5 or 6 medium tanks tho
1:55 I still wonder why you rate "nuclear holocaust" the lesser evil than "world domination"...
I only use infantry anyways, and I forget to move my planes to the right airzones (I am just trash)
From the inventors of The Iron Courtain comes: The Bullet Courtain
And well, then the last bit of the trilogy we tend to not speak about: The Molten Iron Courtain
I wonder if there are any other Og viewers who remember where did the intro “hello gravy babies” actually came from.
It came years before I don’t remember the exact video but ISP saw a video of faze banks and he sounded like he said “gravy babies” so he took it as an intro, so yea that’s where the intro came from I don’t know if ISP even remembers at this point 😅
As yes, the challenge of playing like Taureor
When I started this game I didn't know how neither to design nor use planes/tanks so this "challenge" was and still is an everyday thing for me
everyone screaming artillery while I'm over here with airplanes only. really subject you to the whims of the AI and forcing you to make friends.
oh and navy because.
Well because.
Hoi but you’re not allowed to increase conscription or economy, can’t let the civilian lives get ruined
Special Forces Only would be kinda neat to see, especially with the latest updates. Doesn't mean you can't make any regular infantry, you just can't use them. *Air would be allowed as well to enable paratrooper usage.
Nice, actually winning this, finishing what curt who games started but sadly failed
I did that easily, they key thing to this channel is
Tag (Country You're fightint) and remove their divisions. 10/10 works every time.
Can You Beat Hearts Of Iron IV With ONLY Infantry?
What bro actually did:
Can you beat Hearts of Iron IV With ONLY war crimes?
This could be even better in something like Rt56, get some shock troopers down.
Can't wait for the alf landon playthrough. It would be even funnier if the USA had an electoral college in hoi4 and you had to campaign and stuff because fun fact:
Alf Landon in our timeline won *eight* electoral votes
10:31 got to see that guy fly into battle off the railroad tracks
1:05 I just realized that the desert area in south-central Russia looks like a very angry disembodied head with a bleeding hole in it eating Iran. That lake, is that Baikonur, where the cosmodrome would be during the Cold War?
For isp its a challenge. For taureor its a way of life
As infantry main on every country using maybe planes that game already gave me at the start, im very happy to see this video
How about playing without using any military factories and just get equipment from the market, lend lease, decisions, etc
ISP is willig to sit through the torture that is Artillery only, but playing as Alf Landon is to much.
4:07 Which DLC allows you to sell equipments for civillian factories ? I want to buy it too 😢
Arms against tyranny
You should do a playthrough where you can't produce anything you have to buy all your equipment from the market
Super heavy only: super heavy tanks, super heavy battleships, and large airframes. Only catch is no trading for oil or building refineries allowed
Large airframes have to have six engines too.
IIRC, there was one "true" way to still do this, if you wanted to bite the bullet and install road to 56. You can put nukes on tier 3 rockets and launch them that way. You might still need air superiority, though, I can't quite remmeber.
"It is what it is...", Stalin, November 1941.
Can you beat hoi4 with only, ARTILLERY
Taureor be like: is there anything else??
here’s your next challenge:
Bring back the rat
Alright, real challenge time, Cavalry only Italy. No air, no boats, just horses!
Still gonna just request the Pony mod, everyone must suffer.
He did that one forever ago but that video is gone now
EaW is unironically good tho
As good ol' Stalin always said
"The real power comes out of a long rifle"
At this point its been so long that the alf landon episode seems hype
Build a op Germany and when Barbarossa happens switch to the Soviets
This is the equivalent of seeing a man stand at the beaches of Normany, shooting directly into the sands, hoping to break the back of the German war machine
So in this episode he demonstrates the power of a proper rolling thunder tactic… except instead of artillery and a battle, he has used nukes and the entire war.
Return to tradition, French Cuirassiers (cavalry) only!
We've had artillery only
We've had tonk only
We've had aircraft only
Now we need...
1 infantry 1 tank 1 artillery 1 mech 1 motorized 1 support company template only
(11 width with 1 of each, give or take other types)
ISP video on my birthday? Hell yeah!
Legend has it this is where the Helldivers learned how to fight a war
isn't this how Taureor always plays?
I can't believe we are only 19k away from the Alf Landon playthrough. It's been so long in the making.
How about RATS ONLY next???
would been cool if you had done this challenge with the infantry equipment designer mod yk
Hyped for Alphonse Landon
14:31 The Belka Plan
Luxembourg tanks only.
This isn't a request this is a threat
(In game)
You should do the Sun Ra path as the Black Revolt in Kaiserredux
Here's a weird challenge. In fact, no, I'm lying, this is a straight up masochistic challenge. Like, its so masochistic it basically feels like a paradox steam achievement but slightly harder.
Conquer the equivalent of the mongol empire at its peak with Mengkukuo. While keeping Demchugdongrub in power. Cavalry only (but any support companies are permitted).
It's somewhat reasonable to do in mods like New Ways and RT56, but still very difficult, and in vanilla.... well, have fun, and good luck making use of that random out-of-nowhere buff to Demchugdongrub's leader trait that gave him an additional +10% range and naval attack on his naval bombers. A uh.. perfect pair for his generic focus tree (despite Waking the Tiger existing and being an asia dlc that gave Germany a focus tree) and +5% cavalry attack. Yeah.
edit: And I do mean no navy or airforce. Except for naval bombers. Those are allowed. Otherwise you wouldn't be taking advantage of the very important buff he got!
edit2: Oh, and a little tip. Any effect that says it applies to "All Infantry and Motorized" is not going to help you. If you look at the list of units those effect, they do not benefit cavalry whatsoever. Cavalry benefits from bonuses to cavalry, and bonuses to "all divisions" literally. That's it. Other than that, you're basically going to need to rely on buffing your support companies, which is why allowing that makes this even somewhat reasonable to do in a manner that is at all fun or entertaining or generally realistic for even the insane.
Stop threatening me with Alph Landon!
Always a good day when a new ISP video pops up in your feed
man this is just the napoleonic wars all over again
Even back then artillery was the king of the battlefield
"I have become death (super mega cool nuke Stalin), destroyer (encircler of germans) of worlds" - Stalin circa 1945
Great war tank only would be interesting