The Worst Nation In Hearts Of Iron 4 Keeps Getting WORSE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome back to Focus 2 Z where today we are checking out another terrible focus tree and yet somehow making the most of it.
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@@Donyon31Only for Golden
I already saw that one!
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Day 15 asking you to play as Dutch East Indies in East Indies Reworked mod.
Do whatever you want, but don't make it boring.
Imagine being a random rural Indian farmer, joining the brand-new indian marine force to fight in this "world war 2" that barely even affects you, and then in the span of like 2 years invading Rome, Marseille, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, St Petersburg, and Moscow. Then you go home only to find all the farming has been mechanized and also it's Bangladesh now.
Considering his manpower at the end, maybe the wealthy officers survived that long instead
No time to explain! Get on the landing boat!
Perks to playing India:
-Early nukes
-High population
Downsides to playing India
-70 day focus for a railroad
-Literally everything else
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Pros: People can accuse your India of being below average performance…
Your population due to agrarian society is alot lower in practice
nikkidafox from the farm jumpscare
@@transorm987 yea but u still can get effective 90m pop easily
8:16 i too remember when india gained independence from the uk by landing in italy
😂
"Some real go getters, them. Freedom it is."
"Were letting them go, else they might come after us"
As an Indian, I thank you for being such a stickler to history and showing our extremely diverse history in this video via the only 100% historically accurate game, HOI4 ™
I just wanted to thank India for conquering Europe and freeing all of it just out of pure generosity
That was the most indian thank you comment, which I love
@@marxistvalorieAfter you colonised and destroyed us for more than 200 years, it's the least we can do
The Together for Victory focus trees makes me be fine with Trial of Allegiance
No wonder TfV is free Vanilla content nowadays.
The dev that changed the focus from infrastructure to railways probably knows no one plays the dominions and just troll
I love a constant fall of the worst nation, it makes me proud to be an avid El Salvador player
I played as India before.
I joined Japan against China.
_Never again, supply system._
*Never again.*
Thank goodness you can just... disable supply to allies.
@@AlyssMa7rin WELL, GUESS WHAT!? I learned that too late.
@@henriquemachado9941 lol, I know your pain. My first game was back in Death before Dishonor, and boy was it a PAIN to play the Soviets back then.
Build supply then
My Grandfather served in the Indian Navy in the final years of WW2 at the ripe old age of 14. He's 95 next week
🧢
This.
India is that one nation that I've never played, and in its current form, I have truly no intention of ever playing it in any way.
Would really love for them, and all the DLC countries up to Waking the Tiger to get some proper paths forward.
China is still pretty good focus tree-wise, though Japan is kind of outdated and the warlords prior to switching to either main or comi focus tree, could use some actual flavour -- Sinkiang, looking at you there
@@bundayeti Agreed.
Japan is pretty fun, but that's less to do with their focus tree and more their general position and role in the world, and the ability to steal ridiculous amounts of Chinese manpower pretty early.
Could really benefit from a good rework both for the historical and plausible alternates.
As well as a few of the wacky alternate paths.
Hoping for a good Japanese anarchist path, maybe to do with Japanese Anarcho-Communists you see in the Ethiopian focus tree.
Agreed on China though, and the warlords needing a lot more flavor.
I actually really like Manchukuo's focus tree, even if it's very painful to actually succeed.
Personally hoping that a new rework of Waking the Tiger also includes Mongolia and Mengjiang.
The Indian Focus tree has no war goals, is really crap as almost everything is locked behind being at war or being independent. India has very limited building slots too which makes it very limited to inf based armies and the focus tree gives crap in the name of resources and factories. Pardox needs to rework India like yesterday.
People paid for the Indian Focus tree
which there isn’t one
Are they ever gonna fix what used to be the infrastructure focuses but are now railroads. 70 days to make something that take like 15 days to simply construct.
i also love how you lose the railways when you go independent and lose pakistna
3:20 thats definitely the weirdest part about how HOI4 gets developed, they had to adjust the focus tree anyway.. but literally paid no attention? One of the italian focuses also does absolutely nothing if you dont have la resistance. Its ridiculous
Petition for ISP to play Syndicalist Italy/Roman Empire in Kaiserredux Day 43
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Kaiserredux is great
Please for the love of god no more Kaiserredux, that mod is shit.
Too late
It would be a hilarious nod to civ if getting Gandhi as an advisor gave you a massive buff to nuclear research and reactor construction
When other nations gets better focus trees DLC by DLC, this one with the Raj keeps getting further and further down the getting worse hole.
WHERES THE RAT
When TfV came out I was disappointed there was no path that let you keep the British dude in charge and make India into his personal little kingdom. If they ever remake that tree I wish that will be added as an alt-hist option
Leopold II moment
CHICKEN NUGGETS
YES
YES!!
Yes?
yes
Maybe..
0:51 They still dont give this lot of effort. As proven by the south American DLC.
i find it crazy that isp has stayed committed to the faze banks gravy baby thing for this long
no one ever does the befriending focuses for germany so you should do that for the focus to z series
Never had I thought I’d ever hear Isorrow utter caught me lacking
I did an India playthrough shortly after I bought this game in 2017 and it was traumatizing enough I still remember it.
I remember reading about the Indian naval landing in Berlin in some obscure history book
I challenge you to watch this vid with no audio or subtitles
"Hello there my gravy Timothy's and welcome to HOI4 Focus to Z and Guess what *zooms in* there's no rat today! So i'm just gonna jump right in and..."
Dont think ive ever bothered playing the British Raj
Cant wait for the Czechoslovakian puppet tree
A sequel series to Focus-to-Z where you get a modded focus tree for each nation so the Raj may have its focus tree redeemed. Though you kind of did this with the interesting ones in a-to-z already
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14:50 ME! ME! ME! I Want to play New Zealand
This channel got me into Hoi4 but I got a certain concern: Why do I lose every battle?!
YES I WATCHED VIDEOS. YES I EDITED MY TEMPLATES. YES I CHECKED THE TERRAIN. YES I GOT ENOUGH SUPPLY.
I only played as Germany so far to get the hang of it, tried organizing my navy and air support as well as building quality troops.
I gotta know if I am doing something wrong or why can I not beat Poland in 1940 after preparing for four years? The allies just sit on their borders and won't let me push in. I can't even push through the Netherlands with an Army of 24 tank divisions. But as soon as I just take one division off the border they overtake me within a few days.
Hope maybe someone can help me cause I really feel the game, just battles aren't fun to me ...
Firstly, don't try to play a major like Germany immediately. Maybe try playing as Hungary, Romania, or Turkey (use the generic focus tree, not the hot mess that was added in Battle for the Bosporus). Change ideology quickly, join the Axis, and manually justify on some of your weaker neighbours before WW2 starts, then just help out against the Soviets during the war.
Secondly, maybe you just don't have enough troops, even if their templates are good and you have air superiority? Generally (it depends on the country) you should build civilian factories until early-mid 1938, then switch over to military factories. Don't just build military factories immediately!
Thirdly, you said you had 24 tank divisions... Just to check, you are also building infantry divisions... right?
They could have made the foci better. Historically India provided up to 2 mil soldiers. They should make it possible to reduce Agrarian Soc in other ways and also securing lend lease for guns from the brits. Or alternatively building up Burma in preparation for a Japanese invasion (this alternative could increase risk of the Famine event).
The Atl history foci are laughable, however. Taking out nearby Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, makes at least some sense (regional expansion-wise), as well as preventing Pakistan from splitting if you go comi (Spanish civil war type powerstruggle system maybe).
Securing oil in the Middle East for the Axis or slogging through China at the cost of debuffs to help out Japan would be good mutually exclusive brown party choices.
Joining up with the Soviets and fighting the axis on their end, while more vanilla, is still quite good of an alternative. Maybe the Soviets could try beefing up India's tech, a T-34 heavy India could be fun.
There is always an option to try a navy heavy India, reverse colonising the British and French (arguably the most out-there idea, but not impossible if they go destroyer and sub-heavy, similar to the Germans).
I'm not a fan of a monarchist India tree, but I'm sure they'd do something like that eventually. I'm more partial to a non-aligned isolationist path, where they rapidly industrialise at the cost of penalties. You can build tall and lend lease like crazy.
That's just my take though, if you like any of these ideas Paradox, feel free to steal my ideas XD
paradox should make a dlc for secret weapons
adding helicopters from hoi3 (designer if bBA is enabled)
adding hydrogen bombs as a 1952 tech
maybe satellites as a 1952/3 tech
lend leasing nukes
and launching nukes through rocket launchpads
Who is playing until the 1950s? Buddy play a cold war mod if you want that
@@overkill4733 I've played road to 56 a few times, not a fan of it, it reaches 1945 levels of vanilla lag by like 1940. 1950s in that mod is just a crawl.
@honeybadger6275 I said a cold war mod not road to 56
@@overkill4733 isp do
also would give pdx a reason to optimize the game
@@overkill4733 isp do
and it would give pdx a reason to optimize the game
Ah yes who can forget the great moment of WWII, when India invaded Sicily then Italy, taking Rome. Or their historic landings in Southern France then D-Day in Normandy, and the landings in Spain. And oh I remember the films of their Indian raising the flag in Berlin and later Moscow. Brings a tear to my eye.
4:50 Lend leasing fuel does not increase autonomy gain
Literally to play a commonwealth nation and have fun, you should just install RT56
Eh canada is fun imo, tend to play canada if i wanna experiment or learn things (like tanks airplanes etc)
The event were Pakistan rebels can also happen if you become free by the British capitulating, and can be avoided through the puppeting method you described.
Found that out in a multiplayer game
ISP it's not "liberating" when you're invading the capital of the war aggressor.
I'd argue that you'd be liberating them of their bad decision making.
Call it, Hocus Focus :)
When I did this I just took Rome as soon as the war started and sat there until I got Italy as a puppet.
Ah, back when Paradox made focus trees, as opposed to half backed alt-history novellas you need a guide open to parse.
you don't need 2 nation theory just build dockyards and factories give convoys to gain gain autonomy
I wish an India secret focus tree about nukes, as Civ teach us, Ghandi LOVE nukes!
Theres a glitch with the special forces if u create a bunch of 1 inf battalions and disable theyre equipment and switch them to a diff template u can have nearly to infinite special forces hope it helps
the road to 56 tree is much better. Well not really, but its much much bigger. I played them yesterday and got so bored i cheated and blasted by way to freedom asap, since i actually wanted to play a ww2 simulator, and not just "clicking on regions" simulator, followed by "balance these 2 things so you can keep some extra land" simulator, at which point by the time your done, most of the war is over
As an indian myself i would rather prefer a generic focus tree than that hell hole
Play As Bolivia you get all debuffs but you have the Generico Focus tree
You can keep pakistan as a puppet and later annex them back even if you go the hostorical route (Indian National Movement or whatever), though you don't get them as cores. As soon as you become a Dominion, you can release them as a puppet and even after you gain your independence, they'll still be your puppet. Unless they patched it, you should still be able to do it. I just keep them as an integrated puppet since you get to be independent so late in the game. Let me know if it still works!
i spit my dinner out at the Crip jokes
I find it funny how the thumbnails and titles are as ambiguous as possible now. Algorithm really is strange nowadays
MAP IS BACK
This is absolutely one of the focus trees of all time.
Yessir,
I am a Gravy Timothy...
TIMOTHY!!!!!!
Truly a British Raj moment
dear Mr. iSorrowproductions, the people DEMAND the rat
That focus tree 💀
History finally is in an hour, I will pass if the rat wills it.
You cant get supremacy in the adriatic if you dont control brindisi, the province to the east of it, and albania. There is a strait the italians block there
This video along with many others is the reason I keep coming back even as a student of history, I get my yuck laughs in while I can. India super marines lead the charge and force a D-Day *_FOUR TIMES_*
For a bit I thought you planned a D-Day in Britain, not vice versa :D
They do be walking down Los Angeles Boulevard
Road to 56 all releasable nations A-Z YOU MUST DO IT
If you do the French chile tree you can play as Polynesia
I for some reason have played India enough times that I learnt how to keep Pakistan even if you stick with Britain:
Before going independent by clicking the button, simply release Pakistan as a puppet and keep the core states. Going free with the button means they will still be there but they will be your puppet which means you can re-annex them later.
When are we old enough to not be "Gravy Timmies"?
When you die
@@andrewstepanek8933 :C
When you’re old enough to stop watching mappies.
I still have no idea what isp does in this series but sure
13:29 my eyes!..
You can say what you want ,but I like The together for Victory focus trees (yes they are very small and not much interesting but i like them)
Lend Leasing fuel doesnt give you autonomy btw
We got chile focus tree before a germany focus tree rework
Focus Trees were a mistake. Expansions should've just been about roughly adding flavour and some decisions instead of a constantly changing standard of focus tree depth as they realized how cheap it was to make them.
HoI3 / HoI2 Darkest Hour remasters when!
I'm inclined to agree, the focus tree's I prefer in this game are the smallest ones. I also wish the devs would include an option in the game settings to disable the plane/ship/tank designers and just use the old research trees.
the hand holding is the worst fking thing
can't play as any minor nation without it being a total slog because of it
It is stupid Canada got updated but the other allied countries from the dlc didn't get fixed over the years
The funny thing is canada is still bugged. If you do patriation and stay democratic and form a faction with the USA, its impossible to do the demand newfoundland focus from britain because you get like a -115 relations debuff with britain and need like +52 relations to do the focus. Its impossible to boost relations high enough to do it.
I wish they give sia,malaya,east indies, and philippines foces trees
Naval only
DO IT FOR MY SADISTIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paradox, please do quality over quantity.
Bro called himself the dumbest man around when I’m right here
I'm am curious to know what templates he uses, making good marines in the base game is so weird
MONGOL EMPIRE (without mods)
I'll say it again, FocA-Z
Wonder if he'll count the generic focus tree
Is Achievements-to-Z ever coming back?
you have to obtain pakistan and bangladesh as india !!!!
ALF LANDON.
The actual worst nation is Bhutan. If you fell masochistic and really want to suffer forcd yourself to play until 1945 as that.
We are soo back!!
No New Zealand's focus tree is the worst
Can you license the Yamato in this game?
Play Ceylon!!!
Don’t think there are any mods for it though :(
There's a mod called "Shattered land" that has a Ceylon focus tree.
Thats a spicy chicken tikka
hold on i thought this video was like a year old looked at the upload time and its 38minutes ago?!
India is one of those nations I enjoy more without the focus tree, just the generic one is fine for me. Plus it means you don't have agrarian society.
ISP are you gonna do a no division gamethrough at 800 k
Tip: I've found out that you can keep Pakistan by releasing them as a puppet before becoming independent with The Funny Freedom Button ™️
Day 231 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods + only cavalry
Suffering to Z